rd American millennials to find life partners on a tropical island. Lo and behold, three months later, Netflix debuted. The original series follows Mumbai-based matchmaker Sima Taparia as she meets Indian millennials and their families who are looking for life partners in both India and America.Thankfully, it’s not the exoticizing, over-the-top production that I had fearfully anticipated.
Mundhra anticipates that the show will prompt difficult conversations and criticisms within, and about, the Indian American community. “I’m thrilled with the praise, but I’m ready for the critique, too,” she says. “I want the show to start a conversation. I want, for me as a creator, to be held accountable by my community, and I want the opportunity to have a season two to push these conversations even further.
In terms of making sure we were able to balance that agenda with a mandate of creating a fun dating show, that was sort of a result of a collaboration between myself and our showrunner J.C. Begley and my producing partners at IPC, who are absolute professionals about making high quality, highly entertaining shows with deeper underlying messages.
Well, it could maybe work if you have a white person who she match-makes and you follow that journey through the lens of a white person.. That’s how much has changed in the last 10 years.