Mira Nair’s “A Suitable Boy” is a screen adaptation of the Vikram Seth novel of the same name. Set in India of 1951, it tells the story of spirited university student Lata (essayed by Tanya) in 1951, a time when the country is carving out its identity as an independent nation and is about to go to polls for its first democratic general election.
Backed with the emotion of love and heartache, the Netflix show is infused with many themes like tensions between religions groups, riots and sexuality. “I aspire to be like Lata,” Tanya Maniktala said, going on to share how she admires her on-screen protagonist as she is not afraid of failures. “I learnt how I tend to hold myself back. Lata is the complete opposite. She just let herself go.
She believes in living in the moment, even though she might fail. She might fall down, she is never afraid to pick herself up because she is so confident in her own skin. So, that is something that I learnt from her — to sort of let yourself go because the best things in life can happen in the moment where you are holding on,” she told a news agency. Before her global break with the series, Tanya also appeared as Ishita in the digital series “Flames”. The show was released on Netflix on October 23.
