Prajakta Koli
Dimple Ahuja
Overview
After a disastrous set-up by their families, two teens strike up a tentative friendship at their summer program - but deeper feelings aren't far behind.
Seasons
- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 4 seasons
- Episodes
- 22 episodes
- First aired
- Nov 20, 2020
Cast
10 people
Reviews
5 min readThe Quiet Rebellion of Mismatched
I keep thinking about the first time Dimple and Rishi meet. Not the actual first time—when their parents, in a fit of well-meaning but disastrous interference, arrange for them to cross paths at a summer coding program—but the moment they see each other. It’s not love at first sight.
It’s something messier, more human. Dimple, played by Prajakta Koli with a restless energy that borders on prickly, is hunched over her laptop in the program’s common area, her fingers flying across the keys like she’s trying to outrun her own thoughts. Rishi (Rohit Saraf) walks in, all easy charm and carefully tousled hair, and for a beat, neither of them speaks.
The camera lingers on their faces, not in a grand romantic close-up, but in a way that feels almost accidental, like we’ve stumbled upon something private. Dimple’s expression flickers between irritation and curiosity. Rishi’s smile falters just a little, as if he’s realized too late that this might not go the way he’d planned.
That hesitation is the heart of Mismatched, a Netflix series that sneaks up on you with its refusal to play by the rules of the rom-com it initially seems to be. Adapted from Sandhya Menon’s YA novel When Dimple Met Rishi, the show could have easily fallen into the trap of turning its leads into archetypes: the ambitious, no-nonsense girl and the sweet, tradition-bound boy. But what makes it worth watching is how it lets them be people first—flawed, contradictory, and often unsure of what they even want.
The series is set in Jaipur, a city that’s as much a character as the people in it. The pink-hued buildings, the bustling streets, the way the light hits the old forts—it’s not just backdrop, but a visual reminder that these characters are navigating a world where tradition and modernity are constantly colliding. Dimple, a self-proclaimed "tech wizard," is determined to build a career on her own terms, even if it means clashing with her parents’ expectations.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsMismatched’s Long Goodbye Hits Different
Netflix’s Mismatched has always been a small show with a loud fandom. The logline is simple on paper: an Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age romantic drama on Netflix 
, where after a disastrous set-up by their families, two teens strike up a tentative friendship at their summer program — but deeper feelings follow . latestnetflix.com's read is that in practice, it turned Prajakta Koli and Rohit Saraf into Dimple and Rishi for years.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8-z3p4oh0
That pairing is the whole engine. Koli and Saraf play Dimple and Rishi , pitched from the start as opposites: what happens when a hopeless romantic, Rishi meets an ambitious coder, Dimple ? A meet-cute? A disaster? Probably both, if the early tease is anything to go by .
The Dimple-Rishi formula that stuck
- Created by Gazal Dhaliwal , with Koli, Saraf, Muskkaan Jaferi and Taaruk Raina billed among the core names .
- Direction is linked to Akarsh Khurana in series coverage .
- For Koli, the show was positioned as an acting debut: the digital star making her acting debut with Netflix original series Mismatched .
- The launch heat was real. Koli’s Netflix web series Mismatched created a buzz among fans ever since the trailer released , with Koli paired up with Saraf, who had already impressed fans with his acting skills .
- The source material hook adds nerd cred for book fans: the series is based on Sandhya Menon’s work .
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No wild on-set saga has surfaced in the snippets we have. The cast has done the usual press circuit together, including an ensemble chat billed as everything about Mismatched with the cast , and Netflix India later leaned into Dimple-vs-Rishi banter for Season 3 with a video titled as Prajakta Koli’s heated debate with Rohit Saraf . That reads as promo mischief, not a real rift. There is no confirmed feud in the evidence, so don’t buy that rumor.
Final-season emotions are the real story
- As the final season approaches, Koli has talked openly about her emotional connection to Dimple .
- She admits she is already emotionally preparing herself for goodbye ahead of the final season of the hit Netflix show .
- The timeline says it all: she has been Dimple for almost seven years now .
Let’s be direct: hard behind-the-scenes gossip here is thin. We did not get salaries, episode counts, or secret fights from these search results, and inventing them would be cheap. What the evidence does support is longevity. A summer-program romance turned into a multi-season identity for its leads, complete with a Season 3 soundtrack release and a farewell tour tone in interviews . For a coming-of-age show , that is the point. Growing up takes awhile.
Entertainment rumors and trivia aggregated from public reporting. Treat speculation as unverified unless a cited source confirms it.
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