The new AltBalaji show His Storyy , about men in love, is an attempted companion piece to the producer’s recently released The Married Woma...
The new AltBalaji show His Storyy, about men in love, is an attempted companion piece to the producer’s recently released The Married Woman, about women in love. Unlike The Married Woman, in which a stifled professor finds romance outside her marriage, the men in His Storyy are already a couple – though not officially or openly.
Restauranteur Kunal (Satyadeep Mishra) is married to chef Sakshi (Priyamani Raj). Kunal has been secretly seeing men for years, but his clandestine passion for food critic Preet (Mrinal Dutt) has endured. The arrangement suits the lovers just fine, although Preet does occasionally complain about the secrecy.
Kunal loves his wife and two sons too much to stop the deception. In fact, if Kunal hadn’t been spotted openly kissing Preet, Sakshi might have never found out that the 20-year marriage was a sham and a lie, as she later says.
Kunal’s indiscreet behaviour is strange for somebody who has been pursuing a double life for years. So also is the speed with which deeply buried secrets are excavated and bandied about. Suparn Verma’s screenplay and Prashant Bhagia’s direction are vague about whether Kunal has decided to throw caution to the wind because he has had enough of hiding.
Much of the action plays out in a small set of...
