The BBC’s Sumptuous Period Drama ‘A Suitable Boy’ Will Transport You To ’50s India

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Adapted from Vikram Seth’s sprawling 1993 novel, A Suitable Boy finally arrives on the small screen on 26 July. Prepare to be dazzled, its stars tell Rebecca Watson.

) and writer Andrew Davies to realise the author’s vision for the small screen. The book stacks up at almost 1,500 pages and has more than a hundred characters, weaving an epic tale of a mother’s search – amid the riots and rural inequality of Partition – to find a husband for her daughter.

A series of exquisitely filmed weddings frame the tale, but it’s no fluffy period piece. Set in the aftermath of the Raj, when the British have exited, it is the rare Sunday night historical TV drama set in India that is not told through the experiences of gin-soaked upper-class colonialists.is the BBC’s first period drama with an all non-white cast.

“I think oftentimes it happens with people who are lovers or couples,” he says, smiling, “that they become like each other.” Tabu was similarly charmed. “I had the most glamorous and relaxed shoot,” she says. “I was the only one shooting in this beautiful house.”

 

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