{"id":4309,"date":"2016-05-20T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:31:20","slug":"made-in-heaven-review-zoya-akhtar-reema-kagti-indian-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4309","title":{"rendered":"Made in Heaven Review: The Zoya Akhtar Show Exposes the Regressiveness of Urban India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>t\u2019s impossible to not derive wicked pleasure out of the fact that <\/p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a biting critique of the farce that is the big fat Indian wedding, is written by three unmarried women filmmakers. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to find out that the web series was in fact inspired by the frustration that the writers felt about being endlessly quizzed about \u201csettling down\u201d \u2013 nosy Indian aunties could certainly do with an irresistible comeback. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/gully-boy-review-ranveer-singh-alia-bhatt-zoya-akhtar\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoya Akhtar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Reema Kagti, and written by Akhtar, Kagti, and Alankrita Shrivastava, the nine-episode long <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">operates in the extended <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dil Dhadakne Do <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meets <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> universe. The show is concerned as much with presenting a snapshot of the affluent in South Delhi as it is with examining how the display of wealth consumes urban India at large. After all, the business of weddings \u2013 like cricket and Bollywood \u2013 provides a perfect microcosm of modern India, stuck between projecting progressiveness and concealing social regressiveness. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the centre are the tribulations of the eponymous <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/mumbaiyya-hindi-north-india-delhi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-based boutique wedding-planning start-up, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">run by best friends, Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala) and Karan (Arjun Mathur). Every episode follows the duo plan a different wedding \u2013 doubling up as therapists, mediators, kidnap-artists, and genies. It\u2019s juxtaposed with the heady circumstances of their lonely personal lives: Tara\u2019s industrialist husband (Jim Sarbh) is cheating on her with her best friend Faiza (Kalki Koechlin) and Karan\u2019s sexual identity has to put up a fight against Indian morality. It\u2019s these complexities that make watching the outsiders \u2013 Tara is a middle-class girl married into wealth and Karan is an openly gay man who can\u2019t legally get married in the country \u2013 sell the happiest day of every Indian family\u2019s life, such a riveting affair.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dissects the increasingly transactional nature of Indian weddings: More than one wedding in the show is manufactured to serve a business or a political merger. Some weddings, on the other hand, throw light on how its very structure is built to exploit women: In the fourth episode, an educated family of government servants perform their modesty by insisting on having a \u201csmall wedding\u201d for their son. But soon reveal their narrow-mindness by blackmailing the bride\u2019s family to cough up a ludicrous amount of dowry. In another, an upper-class privileged \u201cmaanglik\u201d woman marries a tree to please her in-laws. And the show itself, opens with a wedding where the groom\u2019s affluent family disregards the bride\u2019s privacy by hiring a wedding detective to find out about a past abortion. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46804\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1552058335.jpg\" alt=\"Made in Heaven Review\" width=\"775\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In an era of<em> Sacred Games<\/em>, <em>Made in Heaven<\/em> achieves something very distinctive: It is proof that intelligent shows can also be accessible and bingeable.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Amazon Prime Video<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> brilliant fifth episode \u2013 directed by Prashant Nair (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delhi in a Day<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) \u2013 that offers the strongest critique: A Ludhiana woman\u2019s wedding to an already-divorced, impotent NRI man is heartbreakingly used as a device to suggest how so many women rely on marriage to set them free, when all it does is shackle them to life imprisonment. It\u2019s admirable how the running thread in all of them points to how none of the weddings \u2013 irrespective of how woke or lavish they might be \u2013 offer women a cause for celebration. After all, how can women not end up as victims in a cultural tradition that expects them to pay men to spend the rest of their lives with them? It\u2019s fitting then, that the show\u2019s happiest wedding occurs where one would least expect it: An inter-faith marriage of the daughter of a lower-class Muslim clerk with a middle-class Hindu man.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only downside of the show is that some of the weddings feel like they\u2019re included only to make a point. For instance, a sexual assault incident at a royal wedding and a fleeting revelation about honour killing hardly inform the larger narrative. It&#8217;s made even jarring by a voiceover that at times feels too force-fed. But even that is offset by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fascinating deep-dive into the inner lives of its two leads: Never has an Hindi show utilised flashbacks so efficiently to inform the motivations of its characters. Tara\u2019s guilty conscience is sensitively dug out as is Karan\u2019s childhood tragedy: A flashback scene that shows him outing and bullying his childhood lover, delicately articulates the thin line between protecting oneself and hiding oneself. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gains from insisting on not viewing anyone apart from the Indian society as the villain: Adil\u2019s philandering ways aren\u2019t outrightly judged and Faiza isn\u2019t reduced to a textbook home-breaker. Even Karan\u2019s mother, who refuses to accept his \u201cdisease\u201d years later, is treated with empathy, a rare feat for a mainstream Hindi web show. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The full extent of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven\u2019s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sensitivity and accomplishment, however, lies in how it approaches the responsibility of having a gay lead. In the show, Karan\u2019s sexual identity isn\u2019t used just as a vapid statement (unlike the hyped lesbian romance in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Instead <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is determined in exploring homosexuality as an Indian identity. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s possibly the first post-377 offering that doesn\u2019t shy away from critiquing the state-sponsored alienation that victimised the Indian gay population for decades: A sub-plot involving a closeted married landlord (a tender Vinay Pathak) hits too close to the bone. As does the show openly addressing Section 377 and its consequences on gay men. But it doesn\u2019t just stop at that. <\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Like every other Zoya Akhtar project, <em>Made in Heaven<\/em> is essentially an inevitable masterclass in crafting an unforgettable ensemble<\/blockquote>\n\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is possibly the only Indian show that represents intimacy between two gay men in a way that normalises the essence of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/bipin-rawat-indian-army-homosexuality\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">homosexual<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> desire: A penultimate scene of two childhood lovers \u2013 one Hindu and the other Muslim \u2013 sharing a bathtub post-sex is filmed with a never-seen-before romantic gentleness. And the gay characters populating the show are shown flirting, kissing, and having plenty of sex \u2013 like it is a way of their lives. It\u2019s laudable how <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> refuses to exploit Karan\u2019s gayness as the other: Like Fawad Khan in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/kapoor-and-sons-homosexuality\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kapoor and Sons<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mathur isn\u2019t made to play Karan as a typical \u201cgay man\u201d and the actor (who played a gay man in Onir&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Am<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) brings an internal anxiety to the character that makes it engrossing.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like every other Zoya Akhtar project, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is essentially a masterclass in crafting an unforgettable ensemble: The show features some electric cameos (Deepti Naval, Lalit Behl, Vijay Raaz, Vikrant Massey) and the casting of every character enlivens its premise: Take for instance, Shivani Raghuvanshi (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Titli<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) who essays the beguiling Jass and lends the show its moral compass. But more than anything, in an era of<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Made in Heaven<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> achieves something very distinctive: It&#8217;s proof that intelligent shows can also be accessible and bingeable.<\/span>\n\n<em>Made in Heaven is streaming on Amazon Prime Video<\/em>\n\n\u00a0\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti\u2019s Made in Heaven dissects the transactional nature of Indian weddings and critiques the concealed social regressiveness of urban India. 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