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Indian Matchmaking S2: Is Nadia Jagessar dating anyone now? Here's what happened after the show

Indian Matchmaking S2: Is Nadia Jagessar dating anyone now? Here’s what happened after the show

The second season of Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking dropped on Wednesday and brought back a few old faces from the first season, and one of those was Nadia Jagessar. The Indo-Guyanese- American woman had been through a few rocky patches in the show’s first season after she was seemingly ghosted by Vinay so when it was announced that Nadia would be returning to the show, fans hoped that she would…

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Men With Dark Pasts - Indian Matrimony's Vyasar

Men With Dark Pasts – Indian Matrimony’s Vyasar

Indian Matchmaking– the show that has Twitter India all abuzz. Self-styled matchmaker Sima jetsets between Mumbai, Delhi and various parts of the US to match up Indians of various backgrounds (though all from a certain economic background) in unholy desi matrimony. The family-approved biodata, the faux pas questions, the awkward first meetings, the dealbreaker-or-not pondering, all topped with a…

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None of the Indian Matchmaking couples stayed together: From Aparna to Vyasar, Sima couldn’t find partners for any of them

None of the Indian Matchmaking couples stayed together: From Aparna to Vyasar, Sima couldn’t find partners for any of them

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Spoiler alert: none of the potential couples in Indian Matchmaking, a new reality TV series on Netflix, lasted. The show has been drawing criticism since its Friday release, for reinforcing cultural stereotypes about India, celebrating casteism and colourism, and for being a prime example of a phenomenon known as ‘aunty gaze’.

The show introduces a diverse cast of characters, all looking…

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भारतीय मैचमेकिंग कपल्स में से कोई भी एक साथ नहीं रहा: अपर्णा से व्यासार तक, सिमा को इनमें से किसी के भी साथी नहीं मिले। स्पॉयलर अलर्ट: संभावित जोड़ों में से कोई भी नहीं भारतीय मैचमेकिंग, नेटफ्लिक्स पर एक नई रियलिटी टीवी श्रृंखला चली। भारत के बारे में सांस्कृतिक रूढ़ियों को मजबूत करने, जातिवाद और रंगभेद का जश्न मनाने के लिए, और un चाची टकटकी ’के रूप में ज्ञात एक घटना का एक प्रमुख उदाहरण होने के लिए, यह शो शुक्रवार की रिलीज के बाद से आलोचना का चित्रण कर रहा है।

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Indian Matchmaking 2020 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1 season

★☆☆☆☆  LMAO! This was wild. Having never gone through the matchmaking process myself, I learned the differences and similarities from watching with both my Pakistani and Indian friends. Sima Aunty means well but yikes your misogyny is showing!

Matchmaker Sima Taparia guides clients in the United States and India in the arranged marriage process, offering an inside look at the custom in today's world.

Hands down I was team Nadia the second she came onscreen. And you gotta love Vyasar!

I’m team Aparna now after seeing her in the reunion video : check it out >>>

Dolly from Delhi “Ok Pradhyuman it seems like another talent that you have is creating analogies, first with the dating app and now with mobile phones.”

booooiiiii bye!

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‘Comments about Aparna shows our own biases’: Indian Matchmaking creator Smriti Mundhra

‘Comments about Aparna shows our own biases’: Indian Matchmaking creator Smriti Mundhra

Academy award-nominated Smriti Mundhra, creator of Netflix show ‘Indian Matchmaking’, on how her show gave impetus to uncomfortable discussions about arranged marriage within families

The Netflix show Indian Matchmaking featuring Sima Taparia, the high profile Mumbai matchmaker, has triggered heated debates on the concept of arranged marriage.

While Sima’s interactions with participants and…

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Vinay, from Indian Matchmaking, says scene where Nadia waits for him didn’t happen: ‘I was the one left heart broken and ghosted’

Vinay, from Indian Matchmaking, says scene where Nadia waits for him didn’t happen: ‘I was the one left heart broken and ghosted’

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One of the contestants whose story viewers connected with the most in Indian Matchmaking, the new reality show on Netflix, was Nadia Jagessar’s. In the show, about Indian origin people seeking a matchmaker’s services in finding the perfect life partner, Nadia goes on several dates with Vinay, who stands her up twice, following which she cuts off all ties with him. Vinay said after the…

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‘Indian Matchmaking’ presents painful truths about skin color and love in Indian culture but does nothing to challenge them

Written by Aditi Sangal, CNN

On Netflix’s “Indian Matchmaking,” marriage consultant Sima Taparia travels the world to meet with hopeful clients and help them find the perfect match for an arranged marriage.

The format of the show is simple. Hopeful brides- and grooms-to-be meet with Taparia — often with their overbearing parents in tow — for an initial consultation. Criteria are laid out, potential suitors are presented on paper, dates are arranged, and then it’s up to the couple to decide if it’s a match.

In some respects, the producers should be commended. This is a show that turns away from the “big fat Indian wedding” trope and offers something fresh: a look at how some traditional-facing couples meet through the services of a professional matchmaker.

The characters’ stories — as well as cringier moments — play out in entertaining ways, at times revealing the absurdities and awkwardness of matchmaking. I laughed when, for example, Taparia sought the consultation of an astrologist and a face reader.

Matchmaker Sima Taparia meets with hopeful clients. Credit: Netflix

At other points, the show presents brutal truths about Indian culture: the emphasis on being “fair”; the enormous pressure to wed; the focus on caste and class; the stigmatization of independent, working women.

But the show fails to contextualize or even question these problematic beliefs when they’re brought up by its characters, presenting them instead as the status quo.

With that, Netflix missed an opportunity to challenge a social system fraught with cultural biases, and also educate a global audience on important nuances. In Sima Taparia, the show found a regressive anchor who merely peddles flawed practices.

Colorism

Mentioned casually but frequently throughout the eight episodes is the idea that candidates should be “fair,” or in other words, have light skin.

The subject of skin color and, subsequently, social status in Indian culture is incredibly complex. While people with darker skin tones are subjected to harsh discrimination and prejudice, fairness is revered and associated with beauty, wealth and power.

Vyasar Ganesan (left) and Rashi (right) on episode six of “Indian Matchmaking.” Credit: Netflix

This cultural bias is engrained from an early age, with women bearing more of the societal pressure to have lighter skin. If you’re a woman, darker skin can be a deal-breaker for families seeking the perfect wife for their son. For men, fair skin is seen as a bonus but not as much of a requirement.

Colorism and the desirability of “fairness” is drilled into young girls. In my own case, it started when I was in middle school in India, when my classmates taunted me for having darker skin. Older women would also make unsolicited comments about my complexion, veiled as genuine concern for me and my future marriage prospects.

In India, the beauty standard is further perpetuated by pop culture and a booming cosmetic industry.

Fair and Lovely skin fairness cream at a shop in New Delhi. Credit: Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images

Skin lightening products are heavily marketed. Actors with glowing, pale complexions are the stars of Bollywood movies while their dark-skinned counterparts play poor, disenfranchised characters. Some dating apps even include skin tone filters.

Unspoken rules

“Indian Matchmaking” itself offers a window into the lifestyles of an elite class of Indians who can enlist the service of a top-tier matchmaker, and in some cases, fly them to the other side of the world. This is not something regular families do, so status is already built into the narrative.

Perhaps this makes it easier for families to avoid explicitly specifying fair skin as part of their match criteria. Taparia assumes it goes without saying, and constantly describes women as a “good person” or match because they are “fair and good looking.” Some of the families rely on this — it allows them to be politically correct and vague in their search for someone “good looking” without explicitly saying “fair.”

Pradhyuman Maloo in episode four of “Indian Matchmaking.” Credit: Netflix

Yet, they get exactly the kind of complexion they want to see. It’s the equivalent of writing “caste no bar” in a matrimonial ad — a suggestion that the person who placed the ad is willing to consider candidates regardless of social hierarchy — but in reality only going on dates with people from the “community,” which becomes a euphemistic catch-all term for people from the same religion, caste or class.

Take the young Mumbai-based Pradhyuman Maloo, who features prominently in the show, as an example. His well-to-do parents desperately want him to settle down and find a wife, but he seems mostly uninterested in the women presented to him, until he’s shown a photo of Rushali Rai, a beautiful model from Delhi. His eyes light up at the sight of her. Taparia describes her as “fair and good-looking, but also, she’s smart.”

When Maloo first sees her photo, he is elated. “Ahh, she’s so cute!”

“I’ll tell you that from her dressing style to her look and everything, how she carries herself, that I can meet her,” he said. “It’s going to be exciting. It’s going to be fun.”

Pradhyuman Maloo on a date with actor and model Rushali Rai on “Indian Matchmaking.” Credit: Netflix

Watching the two side-by-side on their date, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that, of all the characters in the show, they have the most similar skin tones. Their pairing does nothing to challenge the deep-rooted cultural notion that you should marry someone with a similar background.

Changing attitudes

As for women who don’t fit the “fair, tall and slim” criteria, we do see the show acknowledging a different fate. Businesswoman Ankita Bansal is sent to a life coach, with whom she discusses the insecurities she had with her body growing up.

“People would come and tell me that you’re never going to find anybody because you have to lose some weight,” said Bansal, adding that she suffered from “off the charts” anxiety. “So that played a very big part in how I lost my confidence completely in even trying to approach a man.”

The life coach acknowledges that such expectations can be unrealistic, and hurtful when it comes to a woman feeling her true worth. “I think it’s so — superficial, maybe, that they’re only defining us by the way we look.”

Nadia Jagessar on episode two of “Indian Matchmaking.” Credit: Netflix

But attitudes towards “fairness” and beauty ideals are changing. Young people — who are usually more social-media savvy and better educated — feel more empowered to go against the grain, and to put pressure on those who continue to perpetuate beauty standards.

There are several ongoing campaigns that call out celebrities who endorse skin-lightening products, and some Bollywood stars have refused to be associated with these creams.

The campaign “Dark is Beautiful” has waged its decade-long fight against colorism by creating awareness programs about skin bias. Others like “Dark is Divine” and “Unfair and Lovely” have also since joined the fight.

The show sidesteps signs of such progress, instead providing a platform for outdated clichés over cultural debate and context. Fittingly, in one of the final scenes, Richa, a young Indian American woman, who Tapaira gives “95 out of 100,” reels off her criteria for the perfect match.

It’s not the first point in a long list, but when she comes to it, it lands jarringly.

“Not too dark, you know, fair-skinned.”

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Nadia from ‘Indian Matchmaking’ on why she wanted an arranged marriage

She’s smart, beautiful — and pursuing an arranged marriage. “I always get, ‘You’re so pretty, how are you still single? Why are you still single?’ It’s not me! Maybe it is,” Nadia Christina Jagessar says in the first episode of Netflix’s new reality TV hit, “Indian Matchmaking.” The 32-year-old from Morris Plains, NJ, has become […]

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