Indian Matchmaking

Sima Taparia on Netflix's 'Indian Matchmaking': 'Everyone who is criticising the show is stupid'

She added, "Only because it is a reality show, this cannot happen. Now if you say that marriages should happen in five months…everyone who is criticising the show is stupid."

Netflix show Indian Matchmaking's Sima Taparia reveals why lowering expectations is key to finding the right match

Sima Taparia shot to fame at the age of 57 with the first season of Indian Matchmaking

Sima Taparia versus Karan Johar: Who is a better matchmaker?

What are the similarities and differences between Sima Aunty and KJo, the stars of highly successful “cringe-binge” shows streaming on Netflix and Disney+Hotstar? We compare the two, and try to figure out who makes a better matchmaker.

Indian Matchmaking: Sima Taparia's disparaging comment on Nick-Priyanka shows old habits die hard

There is, of course, much brouhaha over Sima Aunty’s sexist, ageist and tone-deaf comment on Nick-Priyanka’s marriage. But we’d be lying to ourselves if we say that our moms, aunts and even uncles haven’t been saying the same thing in our living rooms.

Here’s everything you need to know about Indian Matchmaking’s Sima Taparia

Sima Taparia became a household name with Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking season 1 in 2020 and has returned to make more matches and deliver more monologues on marriage and matchmaking.

Sima Taparia on Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas: I don't feel it's a good match

Elaborating on the married couple, Sima Taparia aka Sima aunty said, “He looks so small and petite in front of her, and she looks elder."

Indian Matchmaking Returns: Lessons Sima Taparia must learn from the first season

Perhaps one lesson that Sima Taparia can learn from the first season of Indian Matchmaking is to not ask her clients to ‘adjust’ and ‘compromise’. The times have changed and gone are the days when arranged marriages were the only option for those who wished to get married.

How dysfunctional marriage was a recurrent theme on screen in 2021, from Haseen Dillruba to Decoupled

The trend of evolving marriage stories has created a revision of the safest, most used, and most overdone formula of Hindi cinema — one that has sustained the myth of a perfect marriage.

Farhan Akhtar's road movie with Priyanka Chopra, Alia Bhatt, Katrina Kaif; Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Netflix debut: Film & TV updates

In other announcements, Gurindher Chadha announces a Bollywood-inspired musical while Pratik Gandhi boards yet-untitled film backed by Bhushan Kumar and Hansal Mehta

Netflix India announces first dating reality show IRL: In Real Love, produced by Raghu Ram's Monozygotic

IRL: In Real Love comes after the popularity of the streamer's shows Indian Matchmaking, Love is Blind and Too Hot to Handle, among others.