Unstructured Loss: No Emmy for Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ and Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’
- Nominees Smriti Mundhra and Padma Lakshmi lost to ‘Ru Paul’s Drag Race’ during the 73rd edition of the awards.
Netflix’s reality show “Indian Matchmaking” lost to “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in the Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program category at the 73rd Emmy Awards held Sept. 19 in Los Angeles, California. Created by Smriti Mundhra and starring India-based matchmaker Sima Taparia, the reality show revolves around Indian and Indian American families looking for a suitable match for their children. The series has been renewed for a second season.
“We weren’t victorious this year but still very proud of making it to the table,” Mundhra wrote on her Facebook page. She shared a photo of herself with the crew.
Taparia shared the same photo on her Instagram stories. “It was a pleasure to be attending the 73rd #Emmys in person,” she wrote. “Kudos to everyone involved in making #IndianMatchmaking, both in front of and behind the camera (our wonderful crew!!) Thank You @televisionacad for the nomination! And to each one of you for all the love you have given to our show!!”
Other series nominated in the category were Disney’s ‘Becoming,’’ ‘Below Deck,’ and “Selling Sunset.”
Bravo’s “Top Chef,” hosted by Padma Lakshmi, who is also the executive producer of the competition series, was nominated in two categories: Best Competition Program and Host For a Reality or Competition Program. She lost to “Ru Paul’s Drag Race” in both categories.
A day before the Emmys, the Indian American chef, model, host and author was honored during the Creative Coalition Television Humanitarian Awards, for her work with the Endometriosis Foundation of America. Lakshmi appeared virtually to accept her award.
“I wanted to start the foundation so that we could raise awareness so that we could increase funding on a federal level, so that we could lobby insurance companies to pay for women getting checked out properly,” Variety magazine quoted her as saying. “I don’t want any young woman in the next generation to go through what I and millions of women have gone through.”
Lakshmi is currently traveling for the third season of Hulu’s “Taste the Nation.”