Onir is an Indian filmmaker and one of only a few openly gay Bollywood directors. In a recent tweet, he said he was “taken aback” after noticing some striking similarities between his critically-acclaimed 2011 film I AM and scenes from Amazon’s 2019 wedding series Made In Heaven.On Monday, the 51-year-old director responded to a tweet by someone who tagged him in a video comparing the two projects.
Both featured the same actor, Arjun Mathur, in intimate gay scenes.“I was quite taken aback when I saw that so much of that section of I AM was not only there as content but shot exactly in the same way,” Onir wrote. “But acknowledgement has never been the strength of this industry.”I was quite taken aback when I saw that so much of that section.