May 23, 7 min read. Listen to article 4 min. In an exclusive chat, The Drum gets f ounder-chief exec Able Joseph to share the game plan of the seven-year-old challenger brand as it gets on its journey to create relevant dating solutions for the Indian consumer. Dating in India is at an interesting cusp.
Indian Matchmaking is a Indian reality television series produced by Smriti Mundhra that premiered on Netflix on July 16, Indian Matchmaking was released on July 16, , on Netflix. Mundhra named the casting the biggest hurdle of the show, going through a client list of families and calling to see if they were willing to be on camera. Mundhra also noted that the series initially started with about a dozen singles but some of those "fell off" during production. The show received mixed reviews between critics and social media users. Though the show is called Indian Matchmaking , it portrays no couples who identify as Muslim , Christian , or Dalit — communities that represent close to 40 percent of India's population.
For the longest time, India's queer community has been forced underground as the police once tracked "homosexual gangs," traced people on online chatrooms and booked them under IPC Section Despite the decriminalization of homosexuality, the community remains underground and dating continues to be challenging. Unarguably the most popular app among its kind, Grindr is a dating app for queer men. The app is also in use among members of the trans community. Launched in , Grindr is a geo-location-based app, which allows users to scroll through a grid of profiles of other users around them.
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