In his debut feature, Sthal, writer-director Jayant Digambar Somalkar takes a hard, bracing look at the vicious cycle of match-making in rural India. The quest for a groom becomes the trigger to peel ...

One report by The Times of India suggests that one Maharashtrian family cancelled ... when the girl's uncle suggested that the prospective groom's credit score should be checked into.

It was quite fun to be a Marathi groom; this is the first time I'll be essaying this character. It was a different experience to perform the Maharashtrian rituals, and I enjoyed my look as a groom ...