Around 1500 pages distilled, compressed into 8 hours and 6 episodes. It is financed by BBC and will be out on Netflix soon. Mira Nair film A Suitable Boy, an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s novel, is screening at a film festival. The film starring Tabu, Ishaan Khattar and Tanya Maniktala among others is a period story set in post-independent India of the 1950s. The story revolves around a free spirited woman named Lata whose mother is looking for a suitable boy for her to get married. A Suitable Boy has all the elements of drama, romance, tragedy, violence and more to make it an engaging watch.
The series is mostly in English with a bit of spoken Hindi and Bengali. People have been criticising the language chosen and the odd accent in which the actors speak. Nair confesses that even her own family has criticised this aspect but also reiterates that she and her team worked hard to get the accents right. Mira Nair, who has worked with Tabu in The Namesake, talks about the actor fondly and refers to her as a big sister, who she loves working with. “As I grow older, I don’t want hassles. I want to work with people I love and enjoy,” Nair comments.
