Made In Heaven is an Indian romantic drama television series that premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 8 March 2019. Produced by Excel Entertainment, the series chronicles the lives of Tara and Karan, two wedding planners in Delhi running an agency named Made in Heaven. The series is Amazon Video’s fourth original fictional Indian series and stars Sobhita Dhulipala, Arjun Mathur, Jim Sarbh, Shashank Arora, Kalki Koechlin, Shivani Raghuvanshi and Mona Singh.
Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti created the show, and they wrote it with Alankrita Shrivastava. Akhtar, Shrivastava, Nitya Mehra, and Prashant Nair served as directors for the nine episodes of the first season. Work on the second season was to begin in April 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming for the second season of the show was wrapped in April 2022. The second season was released on 10 August 2023.
Contents
Plot
Made in Heaven portrays the present-day India as a blend of conservative and modern mindsets, where tradition and modern aspirations are at loggerheads. The show and protagonists' narratives play out against the backdrop of lavish and expensive weddings in each episode.
Cast
Main
Sobhita Dhulipala as Tara Singh Khanna
Arjun Mathur as Karan Mehra
Kalki Koechlin as Faiza Naqvi
Jim Sarbh as Adil Khanna
Shashank Arora as Kabir Basrai
Shivani Raghuvanshi as Jaspreet "Jazz" Kaur
Mona Singh as Bulbul Jauhari (Season 2)
Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju as Meher Chaudhry (Season 2)
Ishwak Singh as Raghav Sinha (Season 2)
Recurring
Neel Madhav as Arjun Mehra, Karan's younger brother
Vijay Raaz as Ramesh Jauhari, Tara and Karan's confidant-turned-business partner, formerly Karan's loan-shark
Zachary Coffin as Adam
Natasha Singh as Shibani Bagchi (Season 1)
Vinay Pathak as Ramesh Gupta, Karan's landlord (Season 1)
Dalip Tahil as Kishore Khanna, Adil's father and Tara's father-in-law (Season 1)
Yashaswini Dayama as Mitali Gupta
Manini Mishra as Vimala Singh
Ayesha Raza Mishra as Renu Gupta, Ramesh' wife (Season 1)
Suchitra Pillai as Mani Pandey (Season 1)
Denzil Smith as Mr. Swarup
Lushin Dubey as Sheila Naqvi, Faiza's mother
Saket Sharma as young Karan
Vikrant Massey as Nawab Khan, Karan's teenage crush, now friend
Shalva Kinjawadekar as young Nawab
Siddharth Bhardwaj as Inspector Chauhan
Ankur Rathee as Sam
Sahidur Rahaman as Nadeem Mechanic
Mihir Ahuja as Dhruv Jauhari, Bulbul's son (Season 2)
Guest
Deepti Naval as Gayatri Mathur
Aman Bhagat as Rahul Mathur
Rahul Vohra as Bijoy Chatterjee
Purnendu Bhattacharya as Raghvendra Roshan
Neena Gupta as Veenu Roshan
Pavail Gulati as Angad Roshan
Aditi Joshi as Aliya Saxena
Pulkit Samrat (seasons 1 and 2) as Sarfaraz Khan
Manjot Singh as Joginder Sethi
Dalai as Harsimran Mann
Ravish Desai as Vishal Shrivastava
Shweta Tripathi as Priyanka Mishra
Preetika Chawla as Geetanjali Sinha
Shishir Sharma as Mr. Sinha
Dhairya Karwa as Samar Ranawat
Rajnish Jaiswal as Jeet Gill
Yaaneea Bharadwaj as Sukhmani Sadana
Tanmay Dhamania as Nikhil Swarup
Amrita Puri as Devyani Singh
Maanvi Gagroo as Tarana Ali
Vijay Gupta as Khalil Ansari
Trisha Kale as Asma Ansari
Anhad Singh as Utsav
Episodes
Promotion and release
The official trailer of the series was released on 15 February 2019. The series released on 8 March 2019 on Prime Video. The second season was announced on 6 July 2023, with its trailer releasing on 1 August 2023. The second season was released on 10 August 2023.
Reception
The show has received positive reviews with several critics and online reviews praising the series' dark take on the Big Fat Indian Wedding. Soumya Srivastava of Hindustan Times gave Made In Heaven four stars out of five, terming it the best desi original by Amazon Prime. Srivastava opines that Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti’s new show will keep you hooked.
Sanjukta Sharma of Scroll.in praised the performances, writing, "...performances, especially by Mathur and Dhulipala, engagingly and steadfastly chart a convincing trajectory of early struggles, promise, dysfunction, despair and uplifting resignation." The show's costumes received major acclaim as well, with fashion writer Shivani Yadav writing an in-depth analysis of season 2 in her newsletter, Popculture Sponge.
Ektaa Malik from The Indian Express stated the series works because all the characters, big and small, have their development curve etched well. The strong performances make each episode stand out.
Critics have described it as a telling story about human nature and greater social dynamics in Delhi.
Soundtrack
The music is composed by Sagar Desai, Dub Sharma, Balkrishan Sharma and Sherry Mathews. Songs are rendered by Rituraj, Farad Bhiwandiwala and Viba Saraf. Qawwali "Aye re sakhi more piya ghar aaye" is rendered by Nizami Brothers and chorus "Perfect Love" by Aadya Jaswal, Avika Diwan and Mehak Sanghera. Lyrics for "Jiya Jaye" and "Musafir" have been written by Amanda Sodhi.
