The six-part $20m series is set against the backdrop of post-Colonial India on the eve of landmark elections.
Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, who is in Cannes this year as the patron of the Institut Français La Fabrique Cinéma initiative, will start shooting her long-gestated adaptation of Vikram Seth’s bestselling novel A Suitable Boy this September having got the green-light on production as she flew out to France.
“I love this book so much. Andrew Davies has delivered a wonderful script. We’ve been working on this for a year and got the formal green-light yesterday. We’re deep in it.
Indian filmmaker Mira Nair, who is in Cannes this year as the patron of the Institut Français La Fabrique Cinéma initiative, will start shooting her long-gestated adaptation of Vikram Seth’s bestselling novel A Suitable Boy this September having got the green-light on production as she flew out to France.
“I love this book so much. Andrew Davies has delivered a wonderful script. We’ve been working on this for a year and got the formal green-light yesterday. We’re deep in it.
- 5/17/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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