Made in Heaven (TV series)

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.

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.

Main

 * Sobhita Dhulipala as Tara Khanna
 * Arjun Mathur as Karan Mehra
 * Kalki Koechlin as Faiza Naqvi, Tara's best friend
 * Jim Sarbh as Adil Khanna, Tara's husband
 * 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)
 * Naina Bhan as Dilshad, Kabir's ex-girlfriend

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
 * Rasika Dugal as Nutan Yadav
 * Siddharth Menon as John Matthew
 * Anjum Sharma as Vishal Singh
 * Aakriti Sharma as Mira
 * Zayn Marie Khan as Sarina Kapoor (season 2)
 * Mrunal Thakur as Adhira Arya (season 2)
 * Neelam Kothari as Kriti Malhotra (season 2)
 * Sanjay Kapoor as Ashok Malhotra (season 2)
 * Samir Soni as Gulshan Raina (season 2)
 * Naina Sareen as Gargi Raina (season 2)
 * Elnaaz Norouzi as Leila Shirazi (season 2)
 * Parul Gulati as Amber (season 2)
 * Radhika Apte as Pallavi Menke (season 2)
 * Samar Sarila as Vikram Sharma (season 2)
 * Shibani Dandekar as Aditi (season 2)
 * Sheena Khalid as Radhika Sharma (season 2)
 * Parvin Dabas as Wasim (season 2)
 * Dia Mirza as Shehnaz (season 2)
 * Kallirroi Tziafeta as Elmira (season 2)
 * Lillete Dubey as Lina Mendez (season 2)
 * Sarah-Jane Dias as Julie Mendez (season 2)
 * Neil Bhoopalam as Danish (season 2)

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 largely 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 on her substack 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.