# India: A Love Story (2009)

> A rich Indian woman falls in love with a Dalit man, defying her traditional family and the caste divide that separates them.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 203
- Episode runtime: 55 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, romance
- Created by: Glória Perez
- Network: TV Globo
- Cast: Juliana Paes, Rodrigo Lombardi, Márcio Garcia, Cleo, Débora Bloch, Alexandre Borges, Caco Ciocler, Letícia Sabatella
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1360961/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melodramatic, sweeping, heartfelt, romantic, emotional

## What critics say

Audiences gave the telenovela a mixed reception, with its romance and melodrama praised while its portrayal of Indian culture drew reservations.

## Synopsis

India: A Love Story (2009) is a Brazilian telenovela created by Glória Perez for TV Globo. Juliana Paes plays Maya Meetha, the daughter of a traditional, wealthy Indian family who falls in love with Raj Ananda (Rodrigo Lombardi), a Dalit man branded an untouchable. Their romance collides with the rigid expectations of her household and the social hierarchy that governs every marriage and friendship around them. Márcio Garcia and Cleo add further rivalries and entanglements, while Débora Bloch and Letícia Sabatella bring the family-side pressures and betrayals that drive each new chapter. The engine of the series is the push and pull between desire and duty: secret meetings, family ultimatums, and social scandal turn ordinary days into cliffhanger-laden episodes. The show is a single 203-episode run told in the style of a long soap, moving at the unhurried pace of the genre and building emotional stakes across many months of storytelling. Its melodramatic register is warm, sweeping and heartfelt, with a strong romantic core and a steady current of social critique about caste, class and inherited prejudice. Fans of Avenida Brasil, Dona Beija and Romeo and Juliet will find the same mix of forbidden love and family melodrama here, filtered through a Brazilian soap sensibility set in contemporary India.

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