Amazon Prime's new desi series Made In Heaven, directed by Zoya Akhtar, arrived on the Internet just a few hours before the clock struck midnight on Friday and Twitter was ready to review it. By Friday morning, early reviews had poured in on Twitter, with words of praise being singled out for Zoya Akhtar and the series' lead cast - Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur. "Zoya Akhtar, you beauty. Gully Boy and now Made In Heaven. You are an absolute rockstar. What an absolutely engaging web series. The aesthetics is on some other level only," is the general sentiment on Twitter. Made In Heaven is a collaborative creation of Zoya Akhtar, Nitya Mehra, Alankrita Shrivastava and Prashant Nair.
Meanwhile, for the series' lead cast, tweets such as these poured in: "The concept is a brutally honest... Sobhita and Arjun have done complete justice to their roles. This is a must watch!"
Within hours, Twitter branded Made In Heaven as a bona-fide binge-worthy show. Take a look at some of the tweets here:
Zoya Akhtar you BEAUTY Gully Boy and now #MadeInHeaven. You are an absolute rockstar. What an absolutely engaging web series. The aesthetics is on some other level only.
— Aravind (@kkr_rockstars) March 8, 2019
Binge watched all the episodes in one go . What an amazing show. #MadeInHeaven
— Dr Ayushi Khandelwal (@Derma_Queen) March 7, 2019
Couldn't wait; starting the binge early! @MadeInHeavenTv #MadeInHeaven pic.twitter.com/fmTN2LnIjz
— Nitin Narain (@viatornitin) March 8, 2019
and with that we end #MadeInHeaven what a well made, directed and written series with such deliciously layered characters. pls watch!
— Danger Aapa (@filmyaddict) March 8, 2019
Once again Zoya Akhtar impresses. That woman has an eye for things and is so bloody talented. She and Reema Kagti at the moment only good Bollywood content creators and am so happy the two are women #MadeInHeaven
— Neerja Gogoi (@TypoMantri) March 8, 2019
#MadeInHeaven dammn a must watch season. The whole season is awesome. Each episode is wow!! All praises
— Niket Gandhi (@gandhiniket7) March 8, 2019
Can u do all the @PrimeVideoIN shows @kagtireema @ZoyaAkhtarOff... Also @sobhitaD pls be there.
"Homosexuality in India is nothing new. Intolerance is."
— Priyanka Sharma (@iPriyanka_S) March 8, 2019
This is just one of the million gems that make #MadeInHeaven a beautiful and an emotionally rich series that deserves to be watched over and over again. @MadeInHeavenTv @PrimeVideo
Totally impressed at how the new Prime video show #MadeInHeaven. Love how layered characters are.
— Alex George (@_Oleggs) March 7, 2019
A tale of a new wedding with every episode#MadeInHeaven is so twisted and emotional... Kudos to ya all..!! @alankrita601 @nitya_mehra #ZoyaAkhtar @FarOutAkhtar #reema @PrimeVideoIN #bingeworthy
— Joshila (@The_Known_Face) March 7, 2019
Apart from the brilliance of Sobhita Dhulipala and Arjun Mathur, the series also has an impressive supporting cast comprising Kalki Koechlin as Faiza Naqvi, Jim Sarbh as Adil Khanna, Shashank Arora as Kabir Basrai and Shivani Raghuvanshi as Jazz. That's not it. Actors such as Shweta Tripathi, Pulkit Samrat, Amrita Puri and Manjot Singh also make surprise appearances in separate episodes.
For those who are yet to watch Made In Heaven, here's what you need to know. Sobhita plays the role of Tara Khanna, who runs a wedding planning agency named Made In Heaven, in partnership with Karan Mehra, played by Arjun Mathur. Jim Sarbh plays Tara's wealthy industrialist husband Adil while Kalki features Tara's best friend, who has an affair with Adil.
Made In Heaven is a joint production venture of Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani's Excel Media Entertainment and Zoya Akhtar's Tiger Baby Productions.
