Amar Prem Ki Amar Kahani starring Aditya Seal and Sunny Singh is touted as an ‘LGBTQIA+ film’ and a part of India’s ‘queer cinema.’ In reality, it is just the end product of what happens when a room full of straight people write queer stories. But it is not just the Hardik Gajjar directorial that serves no purpose. Indian cinema and especially Bollywood has seen multiple ‘queer films’ that attempt to represent the community while ignoring the lived realities of millions. It is a classic trope to represent queer people (often only gay men) as forever forlorn about their sexualities, pining over random people belonging to the same gender, falling in love, fighting against society, and then living happily ever after.