His films often depict the struggles and discrimination faced by the LGBTQ community but Onir says his next feature, "We Are", will have a happy ending.
The film, he says, is a sequel to his National Award-winning feature "I Am", where each of the four stories focused on the LGBTQ community.
"I am planning a film called 'We Are', which is the sequel of 'I Am', and it will be a celebration of LGBT love. And each story will have a happy ending. It is set in the present and after the recent Supreme Court ruling.
"I want to make four love stories. There will be one gay, one lesbian, one transgender and one straight story. All of them will be interconnected and based in four cities. These will be telling love stories where situations are impossible but at the same time things end on a hopeful note," Onir told PTI in an interview on the sidelines of Jagran Film Festival.
He believes a long-lasting change in the film industry regarding the LGBTQ stories will only come when people start accepting them in real life.
"I won't say that it's changed overnight because it is not. Society has to change first because the industry is about box office and box office will accept LGBT films when the society at large starts. But there's a huge digital world opening up so you have series like Made In Heaven' and I also heard that Ayushmann will be playing a gay character in his next, the director says.
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While Aamir welcomes films such as "Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga", he does not think that the film takes the LGBTQ narrative forward.
"I loved that film with Sonam but it does not actually carry the narrative forward. It is what has been done before and I have seen this 10 years ago. So I want to see stories which take it forward and portray things in same way heterosexual relationships are told where people are kissing. The same thing should happen in such stories.
"It should not be like when two person hug, then it is a reluctant one. So that is how things will normalise, it won't happen overnight. But because of the digital space, I think people are slowly changing and opening up to talk."
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