A Suitable Boy

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In 1951, in newly independent India, student Lata is torn between family duty and romance.

At the dawn of a new age for India, passionate Lata defies traditions and expectations. Can she choose her own path, her own love, her own future?

At the dawn of a new age for India, passionate Lata defies traditions and expectations. Can she choose her own path, her own love, her own future?

Based on the novel by Vikram Seth.

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A Suitable Boy: Series 1: Episode 1

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In newly independent India, Lata Mehra defies her mother’s wish to choose her a husband.

In newly independent India, passionate literature student Lata Mehra defies tradition and her meddling mother’s wish to choose her a husband.

1951. In newly independent India, passionate literature student Lata Mehra is looking towards the future. Her mother Rupa has successfully arranged the marriage of her eldest daughter Savita to Pran Kapoor, a university lecturer. Now Rupa has her sights set on her spirited younger daughter, but Lata wants to make her own way in the world. She isn’t interested in romance. But her resolve is challenged when she starts to fall for a mysterious fellow student, Kabir Durrani.

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