Amazon Prime Video series ‘Made in Heaven’ season two has been in the headlines since its release on August 10. Recently, the show’s creators, Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, addressed some speculation surrounding the fourth episode of the new season. The episode is set around the wedding of top actors Sarafaraz Khan (Pulkit Samrat) and Leila (Elnaaz Norouzi). Leila hails from Iran but has established herself in the Hindi film industry. In the episode, Sarfaraz, who is about to announce a new movie with Leila, tries to convince the film’s director to replace her and cast a younger actor opposite him instead.
As the audience watched the episode, some drew parallels to the lives of Bollywood actors Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif, who were rumoured to be dating in 2003. Reacting to this, Zoya, who co-directed the episode with Reema, said in an interview, “Pulkit is really fun. He’s a really good actor and he’s great fun to work with. I directed the episode in Season 1 with him, and I had a blast. People really liked him in the show. For a lot of shows, there are recurring characters. So, when we were writing, we thought we should get him back and get him married. We weren’t really thinking of Salman and Katrina. But you are, and I guess that’s how art works.”
Reema added that the audience is free to “interpret it” the way they like. Besides Zoya and Reema, the episodes of 'Made in Heaven 2’ are directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, Neeraj Ghaywan and Nitya Mehra. The show stars Arjun Mathur, Sobhita Dhulipala, Jim Sarbh, Kalki Koechlin, Shashank Arora, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Mona Singh, Trinetra Haldar, Ishwak Singh and Vijay Raaz.