A Suitable Boy review: Bright and comprehensible, but an orange-filtered fantasy version of India

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This adaptation of Vikram Seth’s epic, 1300-page novel seemed promising, but we’ll have to keep waiting for an Indian family saga of rugged verisimilitude

“I don’t think I ever want to get married,” says Lata, to the horror of Rupa, who wastes no time in enlisting the rest of the family to pair off this maverick. “You must help me to find a suitable boy for her,” she says, and we’re up and running. It’s clear that Rupa and Lata’s ideas of suitability will diverge, and it’s not long before the younger woman meets Kabir Durrani , a fellow student who approaches her in the library. He is handsome, clever and has a wicked cover drive.

 

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