Indian Matchmaking 2 promo out! Sima 'Aunty' is back 'giving happiness to others'
2 years, 7 months ago

Indian Matchmaking 2 promo out! Sima 'Aunty' is back 'giving happiness to others'

India TV News  

Highlights Indian Matchmaking 2 promo shows couples trying to get hitched In the first season, Indian Matchmaking received mixed response Indian Matchmaking host Sima Taparia became an internet sensation back in 2020 When the web series Indian Matchmaking released on Netflix in 2020, it set tongues wagging on social media as it highlighted one of the country's archaic traditions -- arranged marriage. Now, the Netflix show is all set to return with season 2 soon and a promo has been launched by the makers showing Sima Taparia aka Sima 'Aunty' trying to hitch potential couples. Read: Irrfan Khan's son Babil finishes shooting for debut web series The Railway Men The Indian matchmaking promo shows some potential couples trying to fix it up between them and the role Sima will play in bringing them together. Indian Matchmaking was tagged as "controversial" and "cringe-worthy" for showcasing in-your-face casteism, coloursim, astrology and misogyny.

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Netflix show Indian Matchmaking's Sima Taparia reveals why lowering expectations is key to finding the right match
1 year, 6 months ago

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

Firstpost  

With the humongous success of Indian Matchmaking, Sima Taparia, who is fondly called Sima Aunty, became a household name across the country. Even if you get that much, you should ideally proceed because no one gets a 100 per cent match. It’s only when a couple begins to stay together and understand each other better can they achieve 100 per …

Indian Matchmaking is depressingly accurate about one thing
1 year, 7 months ago

Indian Matchmaking is depressingly accurate about one thing

ABC  

Two days after arriving in Australia, I found a pamphlet calling for "people of colour" at the university for a gathering. But my first community-focused event in the country would weirdly end with an Indian-Australian student approaching me and saying: "You're dressed really well for an Indian! Young South Asian Australians on arranged marriages Photo shows A man and a …

Hate-watching Indian Matchmaking is doing more harm than you think
1 year, 7 months ago

Hate-watching Indian Matchmaking is doing more harm than you think

Live Mint  

Three years ago, people hate-watched a Netflix match-making show, some for the utter bizarreness and others for the novelty. Last week, the third season of Indian Matchmaking premiered with Sima aunty chanting the same mantras of “compromise” and “adjust.” But suddenly, the laughs weren’t loud enough to distract from the problematic ideas masked as casual one-liners. When Sima aunty’s memes …

Netflix's Indian Matchmaking Season 3 makes mediocre Indian men great again
1 year, 8 months ago

Netflix's Indian Matchmaking Season 3 makes mediocre Indian men great again

Firstpost  

The third season of Indian Matchmaking has really no reason to exist besides reminding us that mediocre men need to feel great as well. There’s Rushali, the Delhi-based model making a re-appearance from the first season; Pavneet, a six-feet, chirpy PR and marketing professional from Delhi whose height is what I believe Sima personally clubs as a “disadvantage”; and Arti, …

Netflix announces Indian Matchmaking Season 3, netizens react with hilarious tweets
1 year, 9 months ago

Netflix announces Indian Matchmaking Season 3, netizens react with hilarious tweets

India TV News  

Trending News: Netflix has announced the return of the popular reality show Indian Matchmaking for a third season, scheduled to premiere on April 21. The second season also generated significant buzz, and the update on the third season has already created excitement among fans of the show, with many expressing their enthusiasm on social media. Take a look at how …

Netflix's Indian Matchmaking Season three to stream in April
1 year, 9 months ago

Netflix's Indian Matchmaking Season three to stream in April

Hindustan Times  

Streaming service Netflix on Wednesday announced that Indian Matchmaking will return with its third season on April 21. The reality television series follows matchmaker Sima Taparia as she guides clients around the world in the arranged marriage process, offering an inside look at the custom in a modern era. According to the official synopsis, the third season will see Taparia …

Indian Matchmaking Season 3 first look out. Sima Taparia's Netflix series will release on THIS date
1 year, 9 months ago

Indian Matchmaking Season 3 first look out. Sima Taparia's Netflix series will release on THIS date

India Today  

Sima Taparia is back with yet again the third season of Netflix’s reality television series, Indian Matchmaking. INDIAN MATCHMAKING SEASON 3 The popular Netflix show features the entire set-up of an arranged marriage where Sima meets her clients all over the world and helps them find their prospective partners. Now, Sima took to Instagram and shared the first look at …

Sima Taparia reacts to criticism against Indian Matchmaking on Sahitya AajTak 2022
2 years, 1 month ago

Sima Taparia reacts to criticism against Indian Matchmaking on Sahitya AajTak 2022

India Today  

Sima Taparia and romance novelist Ravinder Singh took to the stage on Sahitya AajTak English 2022. During the session, Sima Taparia opened up about the criticism against Indian Matchmaking and what happened with one of the clients, Aparna Shewakramani. SIMA TAPARIA REACTS TO CRITICISM AGAINST INDIAN MATCHMAKING Sima Taparia was last seen in the second season of Indian Matchmaking, which …

Sima Taparia confirms Indian Matchmaking 3. Says 'Netflix will announce soon'
2 years, 1 month ago

Sima Taparia confirms Indian Matchmaking 3. Says 'Netflix will announce soon'

India Today  

It's great news for fans of Indian Matchmaking! SIMA TAPARIA CONFIRMS INDIAN MATCHMAKING SEASON 3 Sima Taparia, at the Sahitya AajTak 2022 stage, spoke about the criticism that Indian Matchmaking received. During the session, Sima Taparia confirmed that Indian Matchmaking has been renewed for Season 3. ABOUT INDIAN MATCHMAKING Netflix's popular show, Indian Matchmaking, features matchmaker Sima Taparia, who hails …

Indian Matchmaking Season 2 proves that India is no country for unmarried women
2 years, 4 months ago

Indian Matchmaking Season 2 proves that India is no country for unmarried women

Firstpost  

In India, marriage — even for the most affluent, educated, and wokest entities — is an obligation; a status symbol of sorts that has less to do with someone’s ideas of independence, romance, and self-actualization and more to do with societal inclusion. Over eight episodes, Sima Taparia — “Sima from Mumbai” — the orthodox, motormouth matchmaker came to embody a …

Here’s everything you need to know about Indian Matchmaking’s Sima Taparia
2 years, 4 months ago

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

Firstpost  

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 is a name you must have heard a lot on this season’s Koffee With Karan from the host Karan Johar. There, Taparia nonchalantly spoke, “I always had great ambition …

Sima Taparia is back with Indian Matchmaking on Netflix and Twitter can't get enough of it. Best memes
2 years, 4 months ago

Sima Taparia is back with Indian Matchmaking on Netflix and Twitter can't get enough of it. Best memes

India Today  

"Hi I am Sima from Mumbai! If yes, then you are definitely familiar with the Netflix India series Indian Matchmaking starring Sima Taparia. The show premiered on August 10 and a large section of the Internet is completely hooked on the dramatic matchmaking skills of Sima Aunty. Sima Taparia's dialogues were made into meme templates with some hilarious and relatable …

Netflix upcoming shows list: Indian Matchmaking 2 to Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Lives 2
2 years, 4 months ago

Netflix upcoming shows list: Indian Matchmaking 2 to Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Lives 2

India TV News  

Netflix upcoming shows list: The OTT platform Netflix has an interesting lineup of shows to treat the viewers. From Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives S2, Nayanthara: Beyond the Fairytale, Mumbai Mafia: Police vs The Underworld, Social Currency to Indian Matchmaking S2, IRL - In Real Love and Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer - Netflix is upping the …

A season 2 celebrate: Your favourite shows are returning on Netflix India
2 years, 5 months ago

A season 2 celebrate: Your favourite shows are returning on Netflix India

Firstpost  

A must-watch-list: Netflix India to drop the second seasons of local shows - Masaba Masaba S2, Delhi Crime S2, Jamtara S2, Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives S2 and Mismatched S2 in 2022. Fans of popular series such as ‘Delhi Crime’, ‘ Jamtara: Sabka Number Ayega’, ‘ Mismatched ’, ‘Masaba Masaba ’ and ‘Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives’ have reasons to …

Sima Taparia on mixed reaction to Indian Matchmaking Emmy nod: Respect every opinion and reaction
3 years, 5 months ago

Sima Taparia on mixed reaction to Indian Matchmaking Emmy nod: Respect every opinion and reaction

Hindustan Times  

For Sima Taparia, her reality show, Indian Matchmaking, getting an Emmy nomination is a moment filled with joy and excitement, and no amount of trolling or condemning can change that. Taparia’s Indian Matchmaking has been nominated in the Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program category in the 73rd Emmy Awards. Getting recognised on a global platform is a big deal, considering the …

Indian Matchmaking: The reality show that's divided viewers
4 years, 4 months ago

Indian Matchmaking: The reality show that's divided viewers

BBC  

Indian Matchmaking: The reality show that's divided viewers Netflix Lockdown hit Indian Matchmaking has inspired difficult conversations about the realities of the Indian marriage industry, explains Charukesi Ramadurai. Right at the beginning of the Netflix hit show Indian Matchmaking, Sima Taparia, or Sima Mami, as she calls herself, declares, “In India we don’t say ‘arranged marriage’. Anil Kumar, founder and …

Netflix's 'Indian Matchmaking' gets arranged marriage wrong
4 years, 4 months ago

Netflix's 'Indian Matchmaking' gets arranged marriage wrong

LA Times  

They say you never forget your first time. Television Inside Netflix’s eye-opening look at arranged marriage, your next reality TV obsession ‘Indian Matchmaking’ joins Netflix’s growing stable of dating shows like ‘Love Is Blind’ and ‘Too Hot to Handle’ while taking on arranged marriage stereotypes. It was rather ironic then, that my sympathies lay the most with the two characters …

Indian Matchmaking’s Sima Taparia reacts to not being able to match a single person on the Netflix show
4 years, 4 months ago

Indian Matchmaking’s Sima Taparia reacts to not being able to match a single person on the Netflix show

Hindustan Times  

Business has picked up for Sima Taparia after the release of the new Netflix reality show Indian Matchmaking. But the series also showed some good things that have changed, like how independent girls are now.” In the show, Sima provides unfiltered feedback to several of her clients. That doesn’t mean I agree with it.” But despite her best efforts, and …

Indian Matchmaking: When girls do the checking out
4 years, 4 months ago

Indian Matchmaking: When girls do the checking out

Deccan Chronicle  

Several desi knickers have been twisting, turning and wedging uncomfortably into entitled Bharatiya bums since Indian Matchmaking, an eight-part reality show, dropped on Netflix. Though at one point, when a panditji says that boys and girls The series also doesn't show the ugly side of Indian shaadis, of give and take, dowry, demands. If Indian Matchmaking had only been about …

Ain\'t we like this only: Indian Matchmaking touches a raw nerve
4 years, 4 months ago

Ain\'t we like this only: Indian Matchmaking touches a raw nerve

Deccan Chronicle  

When corporate communication professional Rujuta Deshmukh’s mother set up her profile on various matrimony sites, Rujuta went with the flow and attended an event organised by one of these matchmaking sites. However, the reality around marriages, and arranged marriages in particular, changes when one logs onto Netflix’s reality series Indian Matchmaking by Smriti Mundhra, who was nominated for Academy-Award Best …

Sima Taparia opens up on her matchmaking process, Netflix show, and why dating apps can't 'compete' with her
4 years, 5 months ago

Sima Taparia opens up on her matchmaking process, Netflix show, and why dating apps can't 'compete' with her

Firstpost  

“I am Sima Taparia. I’m Mumbai’s top matchmaker,” is how Indian Matchmaking scene-stealer Sima Taparia first introduces herself to viewers. However, the one person who has become the talk of the town owing to her ‘unique’ skill and personality is Sima “aunty” Taparia. “I get to the bottom of things, finding out all the inside stories, the family’s values and …

Matchmaking illustrates the ills of Indian society | Opinion
4 years, 5 months ago

Matchmaking illustrates the ills of Indian society | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

The rhetoric of modernity, education, and progress is a powerful one that deludes us into thinking that regressive and repressive aspects of match-making are either a thing of the past, the rural, or the uneducated and uninformed. Educated urban-dwellers cringe at the display of casteism and sexism in matters of spouse-selection, often claiming that they do not abide by principles …

‘Indian Matchmaking’: What to know about the latest Netflix series folks are obsessed with
4 years, 5 months ago

‘Indian Matchmaking’: What to know about the latest Netflix series folks are obsessed with

CNN  

CNN — Lots of people got a glimpse into, and were talking about, “Indian Matchmaking” this weekend. Here’s what you need to know about the new show with no spoilers we promise: Meet the Auntie Taparia extols her clients to call her “Sima Auntie” and she is part matchmaker/part therapist/part family adviser. Taparia appeared in the raved about 2017 documentary …

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