00:00Chas are aligned and marriages are breaking like biscuits.
00:04So we are going to have matcha with Seema aunty today and talk about marriage and of course my matchmaking
00:09process.
00:09Everyone has to adjust to Gen Z, sometimes even Seema aunty.
00:12Seema aunty has to adjust.
00:14Matchmaker is not an easy job. Nobody is happy with their abs.
00:17In India we ne hota is.
00:18People didn't have Netflix in India. After my show, they have taken Netflix.
00:22It's just 5'9".
00:24Yeah.
00:24Which is a little bit of a f***.
00:26You are not marrying a high.
00:30I have just landed in Bombay and guess what? This episode might change my life.
00:35Because I am meeting someone who has changed the lives of so many people.
00:38Simply by helping them find their life partners.
00:41The viral face behind Indian matchmaking.
00:47Yes, please join me in welcoming Seema Taparia from Mumbai.
00:51Hello Seema aunty.
00:52Hi, Seema Taparia from Mumbai.
00:55Legendary.
00:56Welcome.
00:59You've also just come back from Hemdabal.
01:01Must be very busy for you.
01:03Yes, yes, yes.
01:04Today we thought that usually arranged marriages started with tea.
01:07Now Gen Z matcha.
01:09So we have got some matcha for you.
01:11And somehow you are looking like matcha also.
01:13Yeah, it's a matching.
01:15So we are going to have matcha with Seema aunty today and talk about marriage and of course my matchmaking
01:20process.
01:20Oh my god.
01:21I have to try today.
01:22Everyone has to adjust to Gen Z.
01:24Sometimes even Seema aunty.
01:26Seema aunty has to adjust.
01:27It's dumb.
01:30It's not so much.
01:31It's not so much.
01:32It's not so much.
01:40It's not.
01:40It's not so much.
01:41So aunty now my future is in your safe, secure, stable hands.
01:48Yes, yes.
01:48Are you happy now?
01:49I am very happy.
01:50I think aaj kal everyone is happy even without marriage.
01:53But after marriage, there is a different kind of happiness.
01:56Happiness is there.
01:57But don't think that you sab pholon ki says.
02:00I don't think that.
02:01Little tumko mehnat karna hai, adjust karna hai.
02:04Little aapko patience rakhna hai.
02:07Little understanding chahiye with both the partners then you see how your life goes.
02:10Actually talking about Gen Z, do you feel Gen Z clients are more difficult to deal with?
02:15They are delusional you think to some extent.
02:18Actually what I have seen they are very confused.
02:21And I brought wale to ABCD hai.
02:24American desi joe bolte hai ho.
02:25So after my show, they came to know.
02:28Aray Sima aunty nahi bola hai.
02:30You'll get 60%, 100% nahi milega.
02:33Ab unko pata lag gaya.
02:34Because they are picky.
02:35Ye b chahiye, e b chahiye.
02:36Unko pata nahi kya chahiye.
02:38Because they are independent.
02:40They are earning.
02:42And there's no need.
02:43There's no need.
02:44There's a war.
02:44Special thinking ho bana ke rak liye.
02:46They don't want to listen to elders.
02:48Now people have started going to are in marriages.
02:51Ha, the trend has shifted from going back.
02:54Now we cut to the chase aunty.
02:55And I ask you what everyone asks you.
02:58The real problem, that is me.
03:00On that note aunty, do you have some bio datas for me?
03:02Yeah, I've shortlisted few of them.
03:04This is Aditya.
03:06Yeah.
03:06From London.
03:07Yeah.
03:08It will be a good match for you.
03:09He is educated from a good family.
03:12He likes to film.
03:13And he is tall.
03:13Fond of travelling.
03:14He is a globetrotter.
03:15So that also will match you.
03:17He's just 5'9".
03:18Yeah.
03:18Which is a little bit of a...
03:19Yours?
03:20I am 5'9.5".
03:22Oh, so...
03:23So...
03:23No, this is not 5'9".
03:24I think this will be 5'10".
03:26But mostly boys enhance height.
03:29Yeah.
03:29You are not marrying a height.
03:30So this is New Jersey again.
03:32Yeah.
03:33And fond of travelling and good food and all.
03:35He is a consultant which means he would be working 25 hours a day.
03:39No, not that day.
03:40He is starting his start-up and all also.
03:42Let's hope he starts his suit.
03:44This I can actually consider.
03:46This is Dubai.
03:46This is in the past.
03:47I can get him.
03:49Yeah.
03:49You can...
03:50I can arrange the meeting.
03:51Yes.
03:51And you can meet him.
03:52Right now it's difficult to go to Dubai.
03:54But he can come to Delhi.
03:55Yeah, yeah, no.
03:58How will I tell?
04:00Height match.
04:01So Aunty, now that you see we are in 2026.
04:04Last 10 to 15 years you have seen the world change.
04:07Digital platforms are now everything.
04:10How has matchmaking changed itne time in the last one decade?
04:13See, I would say people are going through apps and all those things.
04:18But my method is relevant.
04:20Apps, you don't know anything about the person.
04:23About the family.
04:24Just picture dekho ghe.
04:26Aap uske thuri samjho ghe.
04:27Yeah.
04:27My method is relevant because this is coming through thousands of years.
04:31Toh kushto reality kushto hoga isme.
04:33Ask any Zenzi.
04:35Any youth.
04:36Full of no Aunty.
04:37Apps humko nahi samajma ghe.
04:38Nobody is happy with the apps.
04:39So Aunty now going back to around Covid time.
04:43You know when your show became an instant sensation.
04:45How did the Netflix lottery in a way happen?
04:50It was for Netflix also.
04:51It was for Netflix also.
04:52People didn't have Netflix in India.
04:54After my show, they have taken Netflix.
04:56The story is that in 2012, Smriti Mundra is a director from Los Angeles.
05:02She came for her match with her father mother.
05:05And when she saw seema aunty asa matchmaking kerti hai.
05:09And just when she was reading, she wanted to make some serial.
05:12She thought she would make something like this.
05:15And three years with the camera, she was in that room in this hall.
05:18Shooting all the content she has.
05:21200 minutes ka content hai uske paas.
05:23Not me nor Netflix.
05:25Kisi ko nahi pata the show will go viral.
05:28It will rock the world.
05:30People came to know, oh wow, asa hota in India mein.
05:32Kyonki aryan marriage is only in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.
05:35After the show, people came to know, it is the Indian culture.
05:38It was just seen.
05:39It was just seen.
05:40You are right.
05:41Much like love.
05:42So when Netflix happened after that, you would be bombarded for a few months or maybe years also.
05:47Calls, messages, emails.
05:495,000 phone calls daily.
05:51It was COVID.
05:52There was nobody to pick the phone.
05:54Me three, my daughter, my husband, Anup and myself.
05:56And the calls throughout the world.
06:00Every second the phone is ringing.
06:02Then I called my cousin in Seattle to disconnect the landline.
06:06Because I was mad.
06:07What is the most absurd, unusual request that you have gotten?
06:11I have to explain them.
06:12Dekh bhai, sab kush nahi milega.
06:13You reduce your criteria.
06:15You see your checklist, what is there.
06:17And if it is in 60% then you can go ahead.
06:19Like there is some people who have six pack abs chahiyeh.
06:22So people get this specific food.
06:24But I have to explain them.
06:25India mein nahi hota hissa.
06:26Everybody has some ajeeb ajeeb.
06:28Yeah.
06:28So ki wohh dekhte hai ki chalo ara Seemaan phi help karri.
06:30Toh de do inko kriteria kya kya.
06:32How important do you think is astrology kundli matching in 2026?
06:37So I cannot blame anybody.
06:38Because some don't believe only.
06:40They said nahi humko nahi milana hai.
06:42But I believe.
06:43That's a science.
06:44It's a scientific method.
06:45And do you remember the first marriage way back.
06:48That you, you know that gave you your start to your glorious career.
06:52The first was my own sister Preeti.
06:55Who is happily staying in Boston.
06:57Then I got confidence.
06:59That oh I can do this work.
07:00And if I can do it for my sister.
07:02And people are so happy I am getting blessings.
07:05Why not I do this such a good work.
07:07So then I started.
07:08It's not easy for everybody.
07:09People think that oh I can do it but it's not easy.
07:12So I would say that matchmaker is not an easy job.
07:15You think that I will become matchmaker.
07:18It's very very challenging and tough.
07:22How did you meet Anup ji?
07:25You had no clue.
07:26I was 19 and a half I was.
07:28Oh.
07:28And my husband Anup was 21.
07:30And I was 19 and a half.
07:31Both very young.
07:3219 and a half means that was the right age.
07:35This is 42 years before.
07:36Actually I am from a small town in North Karnataka called Gulbarga.
07:40So both the families came together.
07:42They matched our horoscope.
07:44They were matched.
07:44Then they all came to Gulbarga to see me.
07:47And just in 30 minutes we met.
07:49That's all.
07:49And everything was finalized before.
07:51That if we have to do it.
07:53Because there was no scope.
07:54Oh Anup.
07:55Sir is right here.
07:56Hello Anup sir.
07:57Hello.
07:58We were just talking about you actually.
08:00Yeah.
08:01What was the one thing you struck about Seema auntie when you met her for the first time?
08:05Actually in 30 minutes I could not make out anything.
08:08Only 30 minutes.
08:09We were just discussing chit chat like what you study and what's your hobbies.
08:13That's all.
08:14It was like a child marriage.
08:1621 and 19.
08:17This is my two daughters.
08:19Daughters.
08:19Beautiful daughters.
08:20They are both married.
08:21Elder one is in Dubai.
08:22She got married.
08:23I am a nani.
08:24Bhooti piari.
08:25Seven years old.
08:26I have a granddaughter.
08:27And she is a younger one.
08:29This is my full family.
08:30My son in law.
08:31My daughter.
08:32My both daughters.
08:33Myself.
08:33This is a full family.
08:34This is in Denver where we did shooting of Netflix season 1.
08:37Okay.
08:38Now auntie and uncle I have some rapid fire questions.
08:41So love marriage or arranged marriage in 2026?
08:44Arranged marriage.
08:45Arranged marriage.
08:46Both arranged.
08:47We are all for arranged.
08:48Delhi people or Bombay people who are easier to deal with when it comes to marriage talks?
08:53Bombay.
08:53Bombay.
08:55People are scared.
08:56People are scared.
08:56Sorry to tell you.
08:57People are scared.
08:58Hey, you keep someone good but people are really scared for Delhi.
09:01What confuses you about Gen Z?
09:03Actually, they don't know what they want in life.
09:06That's the thing.
09:07And in one word, how would you describe modern day relationships?
09:10They don't want to adjust and compromise at all.
09:12That's my, I mean, what I see in the modern day.
09:16So it's fair to say I learned many things during our conversation Seema auntie.
09:20One that all marriages are arranged, made in heaven.
09:22And as you say, stars are aligned and marriages are breaking like biscuits.
09:28Stars are aligned.
09:30Yes.
09:30So whether you meet a person through family, through apps, but if there's one way you can
09:34certainly meet someone that is Seema Taparia from Mumbai.
09:38So I'm Shreya.
09:39This is Bhushi and I'll be waiting for you in our next episode.
09:42Thank you for watching more of everything.
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