For director Mira Nair, the historical backdrop of the six-part series “A Suitable Boy” serves as crucial context: the show, an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel, takes place a few years after World War II and the partition of the subcontinent into separate countries, India and Pakistan — the former with a majority Hindu population and the latter, majority Muslim.
“As the country seeks to find a language of its own to be free, this young girl, Lata, this 20-year-old, also seeks a language for herself to be free and to find who she is,” says Nair at Variety’s Virtual TIFF Studio presented by Canada Goose. “For me it was very important to film, because it makes our film not just a period film, it makes it a timely film in which [you can not just] relate to Lata and relatable adolescent journeys through finding who you are, but you understand that these terrible tensions that are now taking place in the country were planted there with the seeds from long ago,” says the Oscar-nominated filmmaker. “What I tried to do is to find a balance between that politic and the person.
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