Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair is set to foray into the web-space with the digital adaptation of celebrated author Vikram Seth’s iconic novel A Suitable Boy (1993). After a long casting process and location hunting, the project begins production on 7th September. Nair is helming the much-talked-about series for BBC Studios. It will start streaming in 2020 on BBC One.
A Suitable Boy boasts of an incredibly electric cast that includes the likes of Tabu, Ishaan Khatter and Tanya Maniktala in principal roles. Ahead of their shoot, the entire team of the series came together and met today. Newcomer Ishaan Khatter, who is also making his digital debut just like Tabu and Mira Nair, took to social media and shared some snaps from their meeting.
Captioning one of the pictures, Khatter wrote, “One of the pleasures of my life to be working with the ever so lovely and magnetic Tabu.” For his another co-star Tanya, he wrote, "Looking eagerly forward to sharing the screen with the entire cast including the radiant Tanya."
Apart from the main cast, director Mira Nair, screenwriter Andrew Davies and author Vikram Seth were also in attendance at the meeting. “The talent in the room sizzled: Vikram Seth, author of the masterpiece that I have loved since the day it was written, Andrew Davies, the great craftsman of distillation of epic stories into screenplays, cutting-edge actors, first-timers and legends from across the subcontinent, all coming together to make a human, funny, political, sexy chronicle of India,” said filmmaker Mira Nair.
A Suitable Boy will be shot across India and will feature an all-Indian cast.
