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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

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 to get hitched. They’re united by a common matchmaker — “Sima Taparia, from Mumbai,” which is how she introduces herself to her clients, as she hobnobs with the rich and doles out questionable advice. “Compromise, adjust, be flexible,” Sima says to her clients, as she reduces them to a string of adjectives and visits face-readers and pandits for suggestions. “I have found matches for people when I was on vacation in Zermatt and in Interlaken and even when we were in the Canadian Rockies, I was on duty matching people up. Hell, I have even matched people up while waiting at the luggage carousel at Mumbai airport,” she told Conde Nast Traveller in an interview.

Some of them, like Vyasar (a public school teacher from Austin, Texas) Sima seems to like, while others like Aparna (a lawyer) Sima openly expresses her irritation with. Like Sima, the audience has also developed clear favourites among the cast. Here’s an update of where they stand in their quests to get married.

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