WASHINGTON POST - May 2 - "A Suitable Girl," a new documentary film, which premiered at last week's Tribeca Film Festival, follows Amrita, Ritu and Dipti, three young, middle-class women in India, as they approach their respective arranged marriages. The film's directors, Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra, who are both Indian American women and won the festival's award for new documentary director, are trying to overturn stereotypes about arranged marriage. Despite the major changes and modernization India has undergone in the 70 years since its independence, cultural norms toward marriage haven't changed much. None of them thought [remaining single] was an option, or could imagine their lives as unmarried women in Indian society.
Mark Brooks: I recently went to Delhi, Chennai and Mumbai to film a mini-documentary about Indian dating apps vs matrimony services. The ~40 minute movie will 'premier' at the Internet Dating Conference on June 1st at 5pm.
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