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A Suitable Boy is based on Vikram Seth’s best-selling 1993 novel of the same name. The novel itself is one of the longest novels ever published in a single volume and fans of the book have been waiting for more than three years for the screen adaptation to arrive. Express.co.uk has everything you need to know about A Suitable Boy on BBC One.
When does A Suitable Boy start on BBC One?
A Suitable Boy premieres Sunday, July 26 on BBC One at 9pm.
Episodes will air every Sunday on the channel at 9pm each week.
You can watch A Suitable Boy as it airs live on BBC One or you can stream it via the BBC iPlayer.
If you happen to miss an episode of A Suitable Boy, each instalment will be available to stream and download via the iPlayer shortly after it has aired on BBC One.
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A Suitable Boy BBC start date, cast, trailer, plot
How many episodes are in A Suitable Boy on BBC One?
A Suitable Boy is an adaption of the Vikram Seth’s best-selling 1993 novel of the same name.
Show writer Andrew Davies, who has been behind War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice, has managed to adapt the 1,349-page novel into six episodes for the channel.
Each episode of A Suitable Boy is an hour-long, airing weekly on BBC One.
The series follows the story of university student Lata Mehra (played by Tanya Maniktala) growing up in North India.
The series takes place in 1951 when India was a newly independent state, post-Partition.
In A Suitable Boy, Lata’s mother attempts to arrange her daughter’s marriage but faces resistance from her daughter, who is on a search for personal independence mirroring her homeland’s newfound freedom from imperialism.
Davies previously rejected a proposal to adapt the book because he believed it was “to perfect a novel.”
Thankfully he changed his mind and has revealed he is feeling the pressure living up to the legacy of the book.
Speaking exclusively to the press, including Express.co.uk, the acclaimed screenwriter discussed how he adapted the novel for the small screen.
He said: “People think very highly of War and Peace, for example, and Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch and I’ve adapted all those.
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“And you have to be not too frightened, and to in awe of this, and choose. It was choosing really, there’s so much in this novel, there is no flab in it at all.
“There are no boring bits. There are no dull scenes and no sub-boring subplot.
“It’s all interesting and so it was painful, a series of painful choices really, deciding what had to be cut out.
“I went for, the emotional stories at the heart of it. To be with Lata (played by Tanya Maniktala) and with Maan (Ishaan Khatter) and with Saeeda Bai (Tabu) and the characters that you love the most, and you just express their story in as a dramatic way possible.”
He added: ”I wasn’t at that time, terribly concerned with making sure I tell the story of India accurately, because if that was all we did nobody would watch it.
“I wanted to tell the story of these people as movingly as possible, so that was the process and I would say to lovers of the book, ‘I’m sorry we couldn’t include it all in six hours’. And for people who haven’t read the book, but love the series do get the book because there’s almost twice as much story in it as we had room for.”
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Only the episode synopsis for the first two episodes have been released.
Episode One – Sunday, July 26
In episode one, viewers are introduced to Lata Mehra.
Lata has defied her mother’s wish to choose her a husband.
Episode Two – Sunday, August 2
In the second episode, news of Lata’s personal life finds its way to her mother.
- Episode Three – Sunday, August 9
- Episode Four – Sunday, August 16
- Episode Five – Sunday, August 23
- Episode Six – Sunday, August 30
A Suitable Boy premieres Sunday, July 26 at 9pm on BBC One
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