If I telll about the movies genre so then
Sanam Teri kasam= Drama+ Romance+ Emotion+ love+ comedy+ Tragedy
Sanam Teri Kasam, this movie is perfect satire of traditionalism, perfect love story, a surprising role of police, conflict between two generation, realization of fault and heart touchable romance with great emotions. In the story "Saraswati Parasarthi" the heroine belong to a typical Brahman family. For her father nothing was more precious than his reputation. Her family is the example of Indian patriarchy that very design of the family members life was made by the male.
inder, the story hero is totally opposite to heroine. One side heroine is representing the traditionalism so on the opposite site, hero is representing modernism. At the beginning of the story, we witness that he is a criminal and has live in relation with his girlfriend. He hate his father because he refused to take the case of his own son.
The Plot shows that conflicts of generation gap. One-side there is the generation of fathers who wants to hold their tradition, culture and ideologies so then other-side the generation of sons/daughter who want to modernize. the heroine Saraswati is a simple shy, and traditional brahmin girl, in modern term "behan ji". She faced insult on every step due to her traditional look. lots of boys had been already rejected him for marriage. in a attempt to be modern, a misunderstanding creates between her and her father. It cause that her father declared that now his daughter is dead for him.
inder, help Saru "saraswati" on very steps. such as arrange a apartment for her, help him to get a modern look, arrange her marriage with one her office colleague(i doesnt remember the name) but at the last moment he rejected to marry her. Then inder finds that Saru has brain cancer and story move on with a very emotion love between hero and heroine,
The death of heroine cause two thing, which are following
It provide a sad ending to the movie
It is the satire on traditionalism and patriarchy. in the middle of the movie heroines father allowance that his daughter is dead and at the end it happens that she died.
Movie is A+ must watch. the best thing about the movies plot the mystery unfold very surprisingly. You will not be bore on any scene.