DOCUMENTING LOVE

Karan Johar's Love Storiyaan on Prime Video documents real-life couples who overcame the odds to be together

- Suhani Singh

Karan Johar’s production banner Dharma is known for its love stories. So, it seems natural that they’d make a documentary series around love. Only Somen Mishra, who heads creative development at both Dharma and Dharmatic, its digital arm, had little idea that it would take as long, if not longer, than a feature to make. Based on the stories featured in India Love Project (ILP), a social media initiative run by journalists Priya Ramani, Samar Halarnkar and Niloufer Venkatraman, and three and a half years in the making, Love Storiyaan sees six half-hour episodes, each devoted to a couple who overcame odds to be happy together.

“In the past few years, love stories have vanished in the popular mainstream, and action or big event films have taken centre stage,” says Mishra, who served as producer on last year’s