Mismatched is an Indian Hindi Romantic Comedy series and is based on Sandhya Menon's book When Dimple Met Rishi. It stars Rohit Saraf and Prajakta Koli in the key roles along with Rannvijay Singh, Vidya Malwade, Muskkaan Jaferi, Devyani Shorey, Taruk Raina, Vihaan Samat, Kritika Bharadwaj, and Abhinav Sharma in the supporting roles. It has a total of 6 episodes and was released on 20th November 2020 on Netflix.
Dimple Ahuja (Prajakta Koli) is an energetic, smart young woman, who wants to study further, learning Java and makes Apps. But her conservative mother Simple Ahuja (Kshitee Jog) is always forcing her to select any boy she likes and to get married. While Rishi Singh Shekhawat (Rohit Saraf) unlike Dimple, wants to get married at an early age and not like his parents who got married at the age of 30. Dimple gets admitted to a computer course at Aravalli Institute, Jaipur and that's where Rishi met her, after seeing her marriage profile which might have been uploaded online by Dimple's mother, and she doesn't know anything about the setup, and their first meeting eventually ends in a disaster. There are other students also, and their teacher Siddhartha Sinha (Rannvijay Singh) and the story follows many tracks and within these three months course they have to build an amazing app, and through this time course, whatever happens between them, the students is what you'll see in Mismatched.
Gazal Dhaliwal, Sunayana Kumari, and Harsh Vora have written the show and it follows the same route as any teen romantic comedy-drama would follow. It introduces many characters that are going through different pains and problems, which are highlighted as the series progresses. At first, I thought it to be a very simple teen drama, but here the writers have at least tried to show the characters as real as how teens and youth are now. They're career-focused and confident and competitive. Among the characters, only Dimple and Celina are one that has been well established, other than that all are just on the screen doing whatever they're demanded to do. Even Rishi becomes quite boring as he's nothing solid to add to the story nor his character is evolving.
However, it manages to entertain with some light-hearted moments and interactions, like between Rishi and Dimple, and between Siddhartha and Zeenath (Vidya Malwade). It also shows how technology has dominated the world through these characters, and the series is strictly for the teens and youths, as they are the ones who will like and can also relate to the characters at some level. What doesn't work here is that, it doesn't affect you emotionally, it is somehow understandable and sympathizable but fails to touch the right chords, and at the end, all of it becomes cringy and tiresome.
Rohit Saraf as Rishi Singh Shekhawat is good and Prajakta Koli (YouTuber as MostlySane) as Dimple Ahuja has done a fine job and is very confident and her scenes with Rohit Saraf are delightful and sweet. Rannvijay Singh as Sid Sir is terrific, and a smart choice to cast him as he acts like a professor/mentor which has quite a resemblance with Roadies, and others have also given their best.
The cinematography by Milind Jog and Avinash Arun is gorgeous and has been beautifully shot. The beauty of Jaipur is well captured, and the same goes with the music of the series, which are like a smooth breeze to your ears, and the beautiful and spot-on production design by Angelica Monica Bhowmick is a treat to the eyes.
Mismatched is just an average fare, which follows the cliched paths like any other romantic comedies. The cliffhanger, a contrived one, at the end is not at all exciting and the mess should've been ended in this season only. The characters other than Dimple, Celina, and Rishi lacks depth but slightly wins in showing the millennials and their problems, and the world which now runs on apps. It's an easy-breezy, feel-good series which is not exciting but not dull either.
Rating:- 2.5/5
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