The show exoticises a cultural practice that in reality is steeped in decades of misogyny, casteism, and gender inequality. There is a lack of self-awareness in the show. It refuses to have its own opinion on arranged marriage. Which also invariably points towards how it ends up advocating Taparia’s questionable views on caste and gender.

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Directed by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Smriti Mundhra, Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking revolves around the work of Mumbai’s top matchmaker Sima Taparia. Armed with biodatas, we see her meeting a wide range of families in the US and in India, understanding her clients’ criteria for their prospective partners. Taparia then searches her wide database and pulls out suitable profiles for these clients. And she does this, all the while explaining the hows and whys of her matchmaking process to the audience.

Addressed as aunty, Taparia symbolises every neighborhood Indian aunty on a mission to get youngsters in her vicinity married. She sets up people randomly. For most part of the season, she goes on interpreting compatibility between two people based solely on the number of similarities they might have. The eight-episode show follows a couple of stories, although the narrative is quite scattered. We hardly see even half of the stories conclude. But honestly, that is not even the worse part of Indian Matchmaking.

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