Rati thinks the pair are a perfect match (Picture: Getty/Warner Bros)

The Big Bang Theory’s Rati Gupta has explained how modern day arranged marriage works as her own character’s romance is played out on screen.

The actress joined the cast as a late addition to the Big Bang gang, becoming the perfect match for unlucky-in-love Rajesh Koothrappali after he asked his parents to set him up.

Speaking to USA Today, Rati asserted that it can work in today’s world, and in the western world, because we’re already half way there.

‘It’s just like any other culture where a person asks their friends and family to help them find someone and introduce them to people and set them up on blind dates,’ she explained.


Could Raj and Anu get a big wedding at the end of the season? (Picture: NBC)

‘The only difference between meeting someone on Tinder and a modern arranged marriage is that your parents did the typing for you.’



As well as this, Rati’s parents also had an arranged marriage when they lived in India, before eventually moving over to the US and setting up home in Indiana.

Over the course of season 11, the final season of the long-running geek sitcom, Anu and Raj have been seen navigating their new relationship after becoming an unlikely good match.

After being set up by their parents in the hope of eventual marriage, tough-talking hotel concierge Anu proposed to Raj after his romantic heart couldn’t bring himself to marry someone he didn’t love.

Since then, their lack of knowledge of each other has continued to make their time difficult, and now they’ve backed themselves up and vowed to ‘start their relationship from the beginning’.

Raj, who at the beginning of the show couldn’t even talk to women without being a little drunk, is proving to be the perfect balance for Anu, who can be quite dominant in her feelings and actions.

By that Halloween, the pair went as the US Constitution and Ruth Bader Ginsberg in a couple’s costume.

(Raj was Ginsberg, Anu was the legal document.)

Rati stars as Koothrappali’s quick-witted fiance in The Big Bang Theory (Picture: CBS)

Speaking to Metro.co.uk about their relationship, she explained: ‘They have a more intellectual chemistry. They talk to each other about their problems and communicate so well together.

‘I think that kind of relationship is kinda long-term material. When you communicate like the two of them do, I think that’s a good sign for longevity.’

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She added: ‘That’s what I love about their relationship and it’s kind of ironic in a way because Raj spent so many years unable to talk to women and now here’s this woman, Anu, she can talk to him about almost anything.

‘I think it’s beautiful. They’re really great together.’

The Big Bang Theory continues on Thursday on NBC in the US, and at a later date in the UK.

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