His Storyy
Cast: Satyadeep Mishra, Priyamani, Mrinal Dutt
Streaming on: ALT Balaji
Rating: ***1/5

In a scene in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger’s Ennis tells his partner Jack how he, as a boy, had witnessed the lynching of a queer couple. “My dad, he made sure me and my brother saw it. For all I know, he did it,” says Ennis. 

Writer Suparn Varma and additional screenplay writer Ritu Bhatia have recreated a similar horrific scene in His Storyy. A bunch of goons beat up a man because he is gay. It is followed by a cop describing what a hate crime is, while asking leading man Kunal (Satyadeep Mishra) about the nature of his relationship with the patient. Hard to describe that two men are romantically involved without attracting judgment. Harder even because the Centre opposes same-sex marriage as “it doesn’t echo the Indian family unit concept”. So, it cannot be said enough that this is an important series. The fact that it is largely well done is a plus.