A Suitable Boy
July TBC
BBC One
For those who love dramas featuring sprawling families, this six-part adaptation of Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel should fit the bill, featuring as it does four different clans. Set in northern India in the early 1950s, the tale centres on university student Lata (Tanya Maniktala), who is coming of age at the same time as her country goes to the polls for its first democratic national election. Lata’s mother is determined her daughter should marry – so long as it’s to a “suitable boy” – but Lata finds herself torn between duty and her own dreams. Andrew Davies ( War and Peace,
Les Misérables) has adapted the novel, while the series is directed by Mira Nair ( Monsoon Wedding).