![]() "I had three or four panic attacks," Doval says. ![]() Another, whom she was briefly engaged to, would get angry if she called him by his name because he considered it disrespectful. One highly educated man asked her if she was a virgin. Men would ask her to make up her mind based on a short first meeting. Doval went through a tough period in her 20s when her parents were trying to arrange her marriage. Nikita Doval, a 39-year-old writer, says she felt triggered just a few minutes into the first episode. " it's impossible to be a single woman in India and watch it without being triggered." "The show has plenty of moments of secondhand embarrassment, which makes it great reality TV," Das says. "What did I do?" a slightly taken-aback Jakhete asks. In a memorable scene from an earlier episode, Jakhete's mom chides him for being fussy and says his older brother and sister-in-law wouldn't have a baby until he was married - so he's to blame for their delay. In the last episode, Akshay Jakhete, the picky 25-year-old, even has a lavish pre-engagement ceremony with one of his matches. The participants dissect their dates with friends and family and suffer romantic setbacks. "Life is never equal," she tells the woman with a smile. Taparia's colleague tells another female client that she should be ready to uproot herself and move to another country, leaving behind career, family and friends, if her future husband asks her to do so. When Aparna Shewakramani, the headstrong lawyer, rejects her first match because he is not ambitious and would never move somewhere that didn't have an ocean nearby, Taparia says "she should not get a life partner if she is this negative." Taparia advises her female clients to "adjust and compromise" when it comes to choosing their life partner. Throughout the series, female participants are encouraged to be flexible and submissive. This is where we can email I Ishmeet Nagpal □️□ □□□□ July 17, 2020 Soooo who wants to join me in sending complaints to about the blatant #casteism and #colorism in #IndianMatchmaking (and also being sexist so much ugh)
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