Checking In With Indian Matchmaking

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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There's marriage, and then there's love marriage. That's the philosophy of Sima, the matchmaker at the center of the Netflix reality series Indian Matchmaking. The show has gotten a lot of attention, but also some critiques. It recently returned for a second season, so in this encore episode, we thought we'd revisit our conversation about the show's first season.

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0:00.0	There's marriage and then there's love marriage.
0:07.5	That's the philosophy of SEMA, the matchmaker at the center of the Netflix reality series
0:11.9	Indian Matchmaking.
0:13.4	And her focus is not helping you find love.
0:15.6	It's arranging marriages for young people and their families based on everything, from
0:20.1	economic and social status to height.
0:23.0	The show has gotten a lot of attention, but also some critiques.
0:26.5	It recently returned for a new season, so we thought we'd revisit our conversation
0:30.6	about the first season, featuring our pals Balal Kureshi and Priya Krishna.
0:34.8	I'm Linda Holmes, and on this episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR, we're talking
0:39.6	about the Netflix series Indian Matchmaking.
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1:12.0	So, if you're not familiar with Indian Matchmaking, as we said, it follows this woman, SEMA.
1:18.0	It's created by a documentary named Smyrthy Mundra, and showrun by J.C. Begley, who's
1:24.3	done other reality show stuff like Ace of Cakes and things like that.
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