Due to the ongoing pandemic, leading such a monotonous life is just exasperating us to a great deal. So, to jinx things up a little bit, we can binge watch some cool Indian dating shows which will make us undergo a roller-coaster ride, surmounting each stage and finally getting ‘that one’. And although we often complain these shows to be “heavily scripted”, we only tend to watch them pausing our daily chores.
Here’s a list of cringey yet exciting Indian dating shows to watch
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MTV Splitsvilla
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First aired in 2008, this most-viewed dating reality show on MTV with a close resemblance to Love Island has been winning people’s hearts with its 13 long seasons! Initially hosted by Nikhil Chinapa, Splitsvilla is now helmed by Rannvijay Singh and Sunny Leone.
Revolving around young boys and girls, the entire show takes place in a villa isolated from the reach of the outer world. The show portrays the journey of these contestants to find ‘love’ through different exciting tasks. The survival competition takes place either between the girls or boys or between couples.
The winning couple gets a chance to go to the oracle through voting, which calculates their compatibility. If they get to become the ‘ideal match,’ the couple enjoys the advantage of the power of elimination. Their hard work pays off at the end as the two of them are crowned with the titles of King and Queen.
Although the show aims to find love, it also throws light on how each contestant survives through different tasks. And this whole journey which is peppered with arguments, dirty fights, jealousy, hatred, backstabbing, elevates the level of entertainment and excitement we are missing in our life.
MTV Love School
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This reality show which commenced its journey in 2015 on MTV, has hooked us with four complete seasons. Initially hosted by Upen Patel and Karishma Tanna, the next three seasons were hosted by Karan Kundra and Anusha Dandekar.
Unlike the glitz and glamour of Spiltsvilla, this show brings to us real-life couples dealing with some relatable problems of infidelity, lack of communication, commitment issues. The name ‘Love School’ gains its aptness as it aims to solve the major issues of these couples by making them perform different tasks to reignite the lost spark.
The hosts of this show, who are themselves a couple in real life, act as the “love-gurus” of these dire-need-of-help couples whose love life seems to be crumbling. The show added a new twist in season 3 by introducing singles and thus broadening the idea of moving on with a new partner if the issues don’t resolve. Although the tasks were fun to watch, this too involved dirty fights among the contestants, making us grimace at times.
What the Love! With Karan Johar
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What The Love! is a dating reality show brought to us by Netflix where the director and screenwriter Karan Johar plays the quintessential “Cupid.” Unlike Indian Matchmaking, this show received a lesser amount of hate. We may credit Johar, who’s a renowned face in Bollywood for directing iconic love stories, to catch people’s attention.
According to critic Surabhi Srivastava, he manages to create a “somewhat believable and endearing personal narrative around each participant”. Strongly believed to be a concoction of the hugely admired American shows Love Island and Queer Eye, the show has six single youngsters helmed by Johar. He is weighed with the task of “prepping” these contestants for their love life by listening to their insecurities, anxieties, and the must-have features in their partner at the very beginning of the episode. And based on these sessions, he customizes a makeover montage (both physical and mental) followed by a blind date. So, in the end, if there’s a mutual likeness in both the partners, they are declared as a couple.
Although we call it a reality show, the show comes out to be another Karan Johar rom-com with a little difference in providing mental support in the latter. Despite the show being total trash and excessively cheesy, it stands out for certain arenas- throwing adequate light on the LGTBQ community, accepting self-love, and breaking the glass ceiling by talking about sex openly.
Skulls and Roses
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After receiving huge TRP numbers for the popular shows- Roadies and Splitsvilla, the impertinent twin creators Rajiv Lakshman and Raghu Ram took their creation to a new level by bringing us the ‘Skulls and Roses’ in Amazon Prime.
The show features 16 young, “hot” contestants who embark on a journey that has a good peppering of love and adventure in “Rose Island” in Andamans and “Skull Island” in South Africa. While the former island is all about extravagance, chivalry, and budding romance, the latter takes a toll on the participants with debilitating tasks.
Although the show begins with the formation of a couple at Rose Island steered by Rajiv Lakshman, the show soon attains the goal of “survival of the fittest” as the participants have to undergo daring adventures in Skull Island (led by Raghu Ram) to earn the winner’s crown. However, it couldn’t even match the success parameters of the former shows and was tagged as “mindless entertainment in a cringe-worthy show”.
MTV Dating in the Dark
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Do looks really matter in love? Inspired by the American series of the same name, MTV India’s show, which had its first season in 2018, throws this dilemmatic question to us through this show. Hosted by the gorgeous Nora Fatehi, this show brings three men and three women to a pitch-black room where they get to explore each other’s personality, smell, and can touch each other in complete darkness. In the following stages, the contestants rummage through the minute details and belongings of their dates, and the anticipation builds up after the revelation when they are supposed to meet on the balcony.
Inspired heavily from the balcony of Romeo and Juliet, we are left with the question of whether the lovers will meet on the balcony or not. Although the show aims to address a valuable question, it becomes sensational and highly awkward at times.
MTV Elevator Pitch
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Before this show, it would have been of utmost stupor that an elevator can be used as a dating ground. “Speed-dating” being the central theme of this MTV India’s show, it has ten boys on ten floors who would woo a girl in the elevator within the limited time frame of just 30 seconds for each boy! Sounds interesting, right? Hosted by the youth icons Cyrus Sahukar and Gaelyn Mendonca, the show sets apart from the scripted bickering fights of the contestants and promises quirk, wit, and a fun watch.
Channel V Dare 2 Date
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Revolving around the notion of “opposites attract,” this show on Channel V was highly loved by the Indian youth. The demand for another season was so high that the creators brought in season 3 with the ex-Big Boss host, VJ Andy. He plays the role of both cupid and devil as he tries to couple two participants who are poles apart. As the show progresses, the question of whether “opposites” will attract each other or fall apart seems to devour us!
Written by Swarnali Dutta
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The Most Versatile Disney+ Hotstar Web Series
Disney+Hotstar has one of the most varied kinds of catalogs when it comes to web-series. When it comes to choosing a web series for casual viewing or binge-watching, one can get too overwhelmed as to which web series to watch. Recently different kinds of web series streamed on Disney+Hotstar, that you can stream, ranging from spine-chilling thrillers to hilarious comedies.
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The Most Versatile Disney+ Hotstar Web Series
Rudra: The Edge of Darkness
A psychopath goes on a spree targeting Mumbai police, murdering uniformed officers. The only way Rudra can reach him is by rendering himself the killer’s victim. Rudra can review a past case in which a member of a cult suspected of murder resurfaces after more than ten years of hiding, abducting, and murdering women to suck their blood.
The Freelancer
Inspired by the book ‘A Ticket To Syria,’ an ex-police officer turned freelance Avinash Kamath, aka ‘The Freelancer, undertakes the difficult job of rescuing Aliya, a freshly married girl stranded in devastated by war Syria amid the background of increasing ISIS terrorism.
Aarya
The illicit drug mafia and unlawful groups intend to kill his entire family. In reaction, Aarya joined the gangs. The show follows her road towards becoming a crime queen who wants revenge on the people who killed her spouse. In addition, she looks for her three children.
Pam & Tommy
Pam & Tommy tells Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s troubled three-year marriage, with a focus on the burglary and illegal sale and distribution of an iconic sex tape that the pair secretly recorded during their honeymoon.
Criminal Justice
The series follows Aditya Sharma’s (Vikrant Massey) life after he is wrongfully convicted of killing Sanaya Rath (Madhurima Roy). The series is divided into ten episodes. The series begins by presenting Aditya Sharma, a cab driver of a middle-class family.
Saas Bahu Aur Flamingo
A family led by a tough grandmother runs the biggest drug organization in South Asia, deep within the mythological surroundings of Runjh Pradesh. Rani Cooperative, which advertises itself as a homeopathic and doll-making business, is a successful and wealthy business run solely by women.
Special Ops
The narrative features Himmat Singh from the Research and Analysis Wing, who notices identical trends in terrorist incidents and believes a single individual is responsible for all of them. His task force consisting of five agents who reside in different regions of the world seeks to capture the mastermind.
The Great Indian Murder
Popular Vicky Rai, a Delhi industrialist, gets involved in the rape and murder of two underage girls. Vicky throws a celebration after his release from jail. Jagannath Rai is disappointed by the CM and wants Vicky’s assistance in taking revenge. In this current day, police apprehend two killing suspects who have guns on them.
Taaza Khabar
Vasya’s life in the slums is difficult. His sole relief and love interest is Madhu, an illicit prostitute. One day, his charity is repaid as he receives an elderly lady’s blessings. Only Vasya’s buddy Peter trusts in his condition, and they decide to use his newfound authority by attempting to sell an antique vase.
The Night Manager
Shantanu ‘Shaan’ Sengupta, a retired Lieutenant from the Indian Navy, is now employed as a night manager in a five-star hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh during the Rohingya genocide in 2017. Safina Kidwai, a 14-year-old girl wedded to the famous hotel’s main owner, Freddie Rehman, approaches Shaan for help in escaping to India. After his refusal, she grabs his phone and secretly records a discussion involving Shailendra ‘Shelly’ Rungta and her spouse about purchasing and importing illicit weapons into Bangladesh.
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Highest Grossing Indian Movies of All Time
Highest Grossing Indian Movies of All Time
India is the country which produces the highest number of films in the world in a year.
This happens because of the different states and languages that are present in the country, which often help our country to showcase the variation of stories that we have and the range that we have which often end up making a huge mark in the global charts. Today we will discuss these films.
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2.0 (2018)
10th number on our Highest grossing Indian movies of all time list. 2.0 a follow-up to Shankar’s Robot (2010) is called 2.0. In that movie, a robot becomes conscious, believes humans are a lower species, and becomes determined to rule the entire planet. The current movie centers on Chitti’s rebirth during the “fifth force” attack on the planet. The film opens with an elderly ornithologist named Pakshirajan (Akshay Kumar) taking his own life. From that day forward, odd things continue to occur.
People’s mobile phones in Chennai seem to fly away from one another. Subsequently, cell phones are implicated as a killing weapon in two murders: the chief of a wireless service provider and the largest mobile dealer in the city. Investigative support is requested from the scientific community.
Secret Superstar (2017)
Insia comes from a rather traditional household, despite her intense love for music. Her mother quietly permits her to pursue her love of singing, even if her father forbids her from developing her gift.
She starts sharing her songs online under aliases and becomes well-known across the country, even among music business insiders. Her struggle to become independent and pursue her goal of becoming a musician is depicted in the film.
PK (2014)
PK is a situation-driven comedy about an outsider in the city, PK (Aamir Khan) who asks questions no one else has. The questions are innocent, child-like queries, yet the answers are disastrous. People who have been stuck in their ways of life for generations have to rethink the world around them when they see it through PK’s innocent eyes.
In the process, PK makes both devoted friends and powerful rivals. Heals broken lives and enrages the structure of society. P. K.’s naive curiosity leads to a spiritual journey for him as well as hundreds of thousands of others.
The movie is a daring and creative study of complicated philosophical ideas. It additionally serves as a simple and heartfelt story about love, laughter, and letting go. Finally, it’s a touching story about a bond between strangers.
Animal (2018)
Ranvijay Singh Balbir returns after eight years to protect his father Balbir Singh following an attempt on his life, which leads him to discover the darkest secrets of his family.
The film is a love story between the character of Ranvijay Singh Balbir, played by Ranbir Kapoor, and his father, Balbir Singh, played by Anil Kapoor.
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
Pawan, a devoted Indian Hindu meets a mute Pakistani Muslim girl named Munni. Pawan grows a more accepting, compassionate man as an outcome of Munni’s positive impact. Bajrangi Bhaijaan brings two people from very different origins together in an alternate father-daughter friendship. Of course, Pawan faces numerous challenges in bringing Munni home.
There are as many bitter situations to watch in Bajrangi Bhaijaan as there are good moments. It’s an extremely moving experience that promotes peace among individuals.
Pathaan (2023)
Indian Intelligence agent “Pathaan” (Shah Rukh Khan) learns of a huge upcoming attack on India, carried out by a hired killer squad lead by the brutal mystery Jim (John Abraham), who has his history.
With the doom clock ticking and his only possible friend, agent Rubai (Deepika Padukone), Pathaan must fight multiple deceit and confront destruction as he fights Jim.
Jawan (2023)
A guy is motivated by an agenda to right injustices in society while upholding an agreement he made years before. He encounters a fearless terrible outlaw who has brought immense distress to many.
KGF: 2 (2022)
The blood-soaked kingdom of Kolar Gold Fields now has a new ruler, Rocky, whose name instills dread in his opponents. His allies look to him as a rescuer, the authorities regard him as an enemy, and his opponents demand vengeance.
RRR (2022)
A courageous rebel and a British officer who once had a profound friendship choose to join the forces and create an inspiring road of freedom against dictatorial regimes.
Dangal (2016)
At the top position of Highest grossing Indian movies of all time list is none other than Dangal. Mahavir Singh Phogat, a former professional wrestler, chooses to pursue his goal of earning a gold medal for his nation by training both of his daughters in the Commonwealth Games, despite prevailing social stigmas.
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Alia Bhatt’s Stellar Filmography
Alia Bhatt is one of the most prolific Bollywood Actresses in the contemporary space of Bollywood, who has also ventured into Hollywood last year. She has proved her talent through numerous films and started her career at the mere age of 19 with the Karan Johar directorial Student of the Year (2011).
Known for her depictions of women in challenging scenarios, she has won several accolades, including a National Film Award and six Filmfare Awards. She is one of India’s highest-paid actresses of Bollywood, appearing on Forbes India’s Celebrity 100 list since 2014 and receiving the Time100 Impact Award in 2022. Today, on her special day, we will take a look at the most celebrated Alia Bhatt movies in Bollywood.
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Alia Bhatt’s Stellar Filmography
2 States (2013)
A romantic journey of a culturally contrasting couple, Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan. They meet at IIM-Ahmedabad College and fall in love while participating in the program. Complications emerge when the program ends and they decide to marry. Krish and Ananya are from separate states in India. Krish, a North Indian Punjabi kid from Delhi, and Ananya, a Tamil Brahmin from Chennai.
They make an intentional decision: they will not marry until both of their parents agree. Everything goes wrong once the parents meet. There is a dispute over culture, and the parents are against the wedding.
To turn their love tale into a loving marriage, the pair must confront a difficult challenge. Because it is simple to put up barriers and resist, but far more difficult to persuade.
Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017)
Badri, the rich man’s son, encounters Vaidehi during a wedding, and flames flare between them. However, when he desires little more than to marry her, she wishes to follow her ambition of becoming an air hostess.
Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahaani (2023)
Dhanlaxmi Randhawa is a prideful businesswoman who considers her spouse Kanwal to be a loser and never allows her son Tijori to get attached to him. Kanwal was involved in an accident and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Years later, he experiences certain occurrences in his life and uses the name Jamini. The doctors encourage them to trace Jamini since it could help them regain their grandfather/father. Rocky, his grandson who is considerably closer to him, tracks down Jamini Chatterjee and discovers that her granddaughter is Rani Chatterjee, a popular anchor.
Rocky sees Rani tells her about Kanwal and asks her grandmother whether she knows him. Rani doesn’t take him seriously, but Jamini reveals the truth.
Raazi (2018)
Raazi is amongst the most critically acclaimed Alia Bhatt movies. During the 1971 India-Pakistan conflict, Hidayat Khan, a freedom fighter, worked as an agent for the Indian government, providing information about Pakistan.
Hidayat Khan hopes that his 20-year-old daughter Sehmat continues to carry on his legacy, as death may call him at any time due to his blood tumors. Sehmat agrees to continue her father’s cultural heritage and is trained by Senior Officer Khalid Mir and his assistant Bakshi.
Hidyat is on friendly terms with Brigadier Parvez Syed, a Pakistani army officer, and chooses to marry Sehmat to his younger son, Iqbal Syed, who is also an army officer.
Sehmat works to settle into her newlywed status and gain the trust of her family, while simultaneously learning important intelligence about Pakistan’s plans against India, which she sends on through various intermediaries. But Sehmat is constantly skeptical of the house’s devoted cook Abdul. Will she be able to do her job?
Darlings (2018)
Badrunissa (Badru) and Hamza are deeply in love and intend to marry after Hamza receives a government job as a T. C (Ticket Collector) in Indian Railways. Still, Badru’s mother, Shamshunissa, is not pleased with her decision.
Three years later, things are not going well between Badru and Hamza since he has become an alcoholic and frequently hits Badru, demanding that she live according to his rules. He is also opposed to his building’s renovation proposal. Shamshunissa is well conscious of her daughter’s regular mistreatment and wishes for her to return home, but Badru remains hopeful that Hamza will change one day.
Zulfi, a common acquaintance of Badru and Shamshunissa, complains to law enforcement about Hamza being a wife abuser, but with his sweet talk, Hamza persuades Badru to withdraw the accusation. On their trip home, Hamza strikes Shamshunissa, and Badru is forced to choose between her mother and her husband, ultimately choosing Hamza, causing both mom and daughter to cut connections.
A couple of days later, Badru learns of her upcoming pregnancy and joins Shamshunissa at the very same time Hamza learns through Inspector Jadhav that Zulfi has filed a complaint against him, and Badru is well aware of it. Hamza fears a sexual relationship between them and throws Badru downstairs, causing her to miscarry.
However, Badru continues to stay there; she intends to hold Hamza hostage in their home and torment him in the same way he tortured her. This is Alia’s first OTT project but this series was no less than any Alia Bhatt movies and her performance was praised.
Udta Punjab (2016)
What might a rock superstar, a migrant worker, a doctor, and a cop have something in common? Simple, Punjab! Udta Punjab brings you on an unforgettable journey with four lives and one bond. Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, and Diljit Dosanjh play people from all walks of life who each tackle the drug curse in their unique way.
The film explores the manufactured highs and actual lows that they encounter while traveling down dangerous routes. But most importantly, Udta Punjab is about the legendary Punjabi spirit, which, despite being completely down, has the nerve to stare you in the eye.
Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022)
Gangubai most recent and most successful among Alia Bhatt movies. A small girl gets sold to Rashmibai’s brothel and forced to work in the prostitution trade. When the girl refuses to accept, Rashmibai feels compelled to seek the assistance of Gangubai Kathiawadi. Gangubai Kathiawadi, also known as Ganga, desired to become an actress and fled to Mumbai with her fiance Ramnik, who sold her to Shelia Masi’s brothel.
Gangubai had little choice but to become a prostitute, but she earned the respect of other women because she would be their primary support in their fight against Sheila Masi. Gangubai eventually forms a brotherly friendship with Don Rahim Lala. Gangubai quickly established herself as the mafia queen and aimed to improve women’s lives in her town. She chooses to enter politics, but she faces a formidable opponent in Raziabai.
Highway (2014)
A city girl, youthful and full of life, is on a highway at late midnight with her fiancé. Suddenly, her life changes from the shiny jewels of marriage to the gruesome brutality of kidnapping.
Her life will not be ever the same again. The gang is terrified; the girl is a wealthy industrialist’s daughter, and his connections in the halls of power make compensation impossible. However, for the leader of this organization, giving her back is not a choice. As the days pass, the countryside changes and the girl believes she has undergone shifts as well.
Slowly, a weird link forms involving the person being oppressed and the one who oppresses her. For the first time in her imprisonment, she feels carefree, happy, and peaceful.
So which one is your favorite among the above-mentioned Alia Bhatt movies? Let us know in the comments.
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