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02.10.2020 / 01:53
Why ‘A Suitable Boy’ Director Mira Nair Needed to Be the One to Adapt Novel: ‘It Is Us Who Need to Tell This Story’ (Video)
Also Read: How a Small Film Slate at Toronto Film Festival Translated Into Big SalesThe story takes place in 1951, four years after the British withdrew from India, and follow four families over a period of 18 months, centering on Rupa Mehra’s efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother.The book, “a door stopper of a novel” as Nair called it, shines its light on mainly elite families in