A suitable boy, an online television series brought to the audience by BBC One. This is an adaptation of the novel “ A Suitable Boy” by writer Vikram Seth. The drama series is directed by Mira Nair. The character adaptions include skilled actors like Tabu, Ishaan Khattar, Ram Kapoor, Rasika Duggal and Tanya maniktala. The series started in September 2019 at lucknow.
The story follows the journey of a university student Lata( portrayed by Tanya Maniktala), in the era of newly independent India around 1951. The story of “ a suitable boy”, is a tale of love and lives of four large extended families. A Suitable Boy is an enigma of complex and multi-facet ethnic indian society portrayed with a flux of love, ambition and aspirations. A Suitable Boy, is the story of simple and ordinary people engaged in the clusture of love, humour and sadness. Prejudice and reconciliation of thoughts. It challenges the complex social etiquettes and personal appalling violence among these relationships.
The initial trailer depicts some intense scene between Ishan Khattar ( aka Maan Kapoor) and Tabu ( aka Saeeda bai). The trailer depictes, a suitable boy puts justice to its name because of the determination and shear will of Lata’s mother Mahira Kakkar( aka Rupa Mehra). To find her daughter a young and suitable boy without considering Lata’s choice of a suitable boy she loves. The trailer depictes the complex relationship analysis between Tabu and Ishaan Khattar and his father Ram kapoor( aka Mahesh Kapoor). And the social stigmas that hold our society.
All an all this trailer of a suitable boy by BBC one is one to catch up for sure. It caters to all the enthusiasts of love, intensity, social hardships and struggle to find their sort of “suitable boy”.