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    Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker who was recently awarded for creating impactful media. Some of her notable films include Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, and Salaam Bombay. Her latest project is a BBC mini-series adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy". Nair spent time with Seth to ensure she captured the nuances of the story, which follows families in post-Partition India and examines the politics of love and marriage. Both Nair and actress Tabu, who stars in the series, feel the characters and themes are universal and could exist today in any society.

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    Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker who was recently awarded for creating impactful media. Some of her notable films include Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, and Salaam Bombay. Her latest project is a BBC mini-series adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy". Nair spent time with Seth to ensure she captured the nuances of the story, which follows families in post-Partition India and examines the politics of love and marriage. Both Nair and actress Tabu, who stars in the series, feel the characters and themes are universal and could exist today in any society.

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    Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker who was recently awarded for creating impactful media. Some of her notable films include Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, and Salaam Bombay. Her latest project is a BBC mini-series adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel "A Suitable Boy". Nair spent time with Seth to ensure she captured the nuances of the story, which follows families in post-Partition India and examines the politics of love and marriage. Both Nair and actress Tabu, who stars in the series, feel the characters and themes are universal and could exist today in any society.

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    “If we don’t tell our stories, no one else will,” filmmaker
    Mira Nair said, accepting an Award for creating media of
    Impact at the Toronto International Film Festival
    September 2020 last month. The magic wand of her
    storytelling has let the world experience India through
    films like Monsoon Wedding (2001), about a family
    celebration disrupted by dark secrets; The Namesake
    (2006), a story of loss and fractured identity based on the
    novel by JhumpaLahiri; and Salaam Bombay (1988), her
    stunning feature debut, which traced the life of a child
    growing up in the slums of Bombay.
    Monsoon Wedding won at Venice; Salaam Bombay was
    India’s official entry to the Oscars. Mira’s latest, the six-
    part BBC mini-series A Suitable Boy, closed this year’s
    TIFF(2020). It is based on the epic novel of the same
    name by Vikram Seth, a saga that follows five families
    through a layered look at the politics of love and marriage
    in a post-Independence, post-Partition India that is also
    struggling to define itself.
    “We decided it wouldn’t be a period piece alone, but a
    mirror to Indian society today,” said Mira, 63, speaking
    from her New York home days before the India release of
    the series October 23. “A beautiful mirror to what we have
    left behind, the world we should never forget. Because
    the roots of so much of the politics we see in our country
    today were planted then. And still the Hindu and the
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    Muslim community were interwoven in our culture,
    relationships. It was a syncretic society; I wanted to Film Director Producer and Writer
    highlight that.” BA SocioHonsMH

    Before getting to work, Mira spent four days with Vicky Seth in his home in England, recalibrating.
    “Making sure we had all the nuances that I wanted to be careful of.” She also consulted him on the
    casting as “his happiness is important to me”.
    There were 105 roles to fill. The first actor cast was Tabu (who was also in The Namesake); here she
    plays a courtesan named Saeeda. IshaanKhattar is MaanKapoor, the young male lead; and the star,
    Tanya Maniktala, was an ad copywriter until her audition for the role of Lata. Mira calls her a “dew drop
    in action, innocent, feisty and intelligent”.
    Mira grew up in Odisha, Kolkata, Shimla and Delhi, and now splits her time between her homes in New
    York, Kampala in Uganda, and New Delhi. But her father grew up in Lahore before Partition. “I grew
    up listening to ghazals. Music was going to be the oxygen of this whole series. So I took the poems in
    the novel to [the sufi singer] Kavita Seth, who composed the ghazals and is also Tabu’s voice.
    Anoushka Shankar is the voice and embodiment of Lata.”
    Period elements notwithstanding, Mira and Tabu have both said they see the tale, and series, as
    universal. “These characters could very well exist today in any part of the world, in any country,” Tabu
    said in a BBC interview. “As human beings, we all have societies that define us and that we are a
    product of. We have love and we have separation.”
    Hindustan Times 18.10.2020 adapted
    click:DU alumna Corporate Leaders 2017
    click:alumna Mira Nair set to direct ‘A Suitable Boy’ for BBC Lookout Point 2018

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