අ සූටබල් බෝයි (රූපවාහිනී කතාමාලාව)

මෙම ලිපිය බීබීසී රූපවාහිනී කතාමාලාව පිලිබඳ වේ. වික්‍රම් සේථ්ගේ එම නමම ඇති නවකථාව සඳහා, අ සූටබල් බෝයි බලන්න.

අ සූටබල් බෝයි
ප්‍රභේදය	නාට්‍ය
මත පදනම්ව	වික්‍රම් සේථ්ගේ අ සූටබල් බෝයි
රචනය කලේ	ඇන්ඩෲ ඩේවීස්
අධ්‍යක්ෂණය කලේ	මීරා නායර්
රඟපෑම	තබූ ඉෂාන් ඛට්ටර් ටානියා මාණික්තාලා රසිකා දුගල්
Composer(s)	තනු: ඇලෙක්ස් හෙෆස් අනූෂ්කා ශංකර් ගීත: කවිතා සේථ්
සම්භව රට	එක්සත් රාජධානිය ඉන්දියාව
භාෂාව(න්)	බෙංගාලි ඉංග්‍රීසි හින්දි උර්දු
No. of series	1
කථාංග ගණන	6 (කථාංග ලැයිස්තුව)
නිෂ්පාදනය
විධායකනිෂ්පාදක(යෝ)	මීරා නායර් වික්‍රම් සේථ් ඇන්ඩෲ ඩේවීස් ෆේත් පෙන්හේල් ලෝරා ලැන්කෙස්ටර් විල් ජොන්ස්ටන් ලිඩියා ඩීන් පිල්චර් ආරාධනා සේථ් මෝනා කුරේෂී අයේලා බට්
නිෂ්පාදක(යෝ)	ලිඩියා ඩීන් පිල්චර් ආරාධනා සේථ්
සංස්කාරක(යන්)	නික් ෆෙන්ටන් තනූප්‍රියා ශර්මා
සිනෙමාරූපණය	ඩික්ලෑන් ක්වින්
නිෂ්පාදන සමාගම	ලුකවුට් පොයින්ට්
බෙදාහරින්නා	බීබීසී ස්ටූඩියෝස් විනියාර්ඩ් ෆිල්ම්ස් නෙට්ෆ්ලික්ස්
ප්‍රචාරණය
මුල් නාලිකාව	බීබීසී වන්
රූප ආකෘතිය	2:1 1080p
ශබ්ද ආකෘතිය	Stereo
මුල් ධාවනය	26 ජූලි 2020 (2020-07-26) – 24 අගෝස්තු 2020 (2020-08-24)
බාහිර සබැඳි
වෙබ් අඩවිය

අ සූටබල් බෝයි is a BBC television drama miniseries directed by Mira Nair and adapted by Andrew Davies from Vikram Seth's 1993 novel of the same name. Set in the backdrop of post-independent India, A Suitable Boy follows four linked families in North India, where the story revolves around Mrs. Rupa Mehra who is in search of a suitable husband for her youngest daughter Lata. Meanwhile, the daughter is torn between her duty towards her mother and the idea of romance with her suitors.

The series star Tanya Maniktala, as the main character Lata, with Tabu, Ishaan Khatter, Rasika Dugal, Mahira Kakkar, Ram Kapoor, Namit Das, Vivaan Shah, Mikhail Sen, Danesh Rizvi, Shahana Goswami, Ranvir Shorey, Vijay Varma and Kulbhushan Kharbanda also star in prominent roles, as its storyline span around more than 110 characters. It is the first BBC period-drama series to have a non-white cast.

The adaptation of the series was officially announced by Charlotte Moore, BBC's head of content in May 2017, with Mira Nair was officially announced on directing the series. Principal shoot of the series took place in September 2019. The series were filmed across Lucknow, as the primary location, and was also shot in Maheshwar and Kanpur. The background music for the series were composed by Alex Heffes and Anoushka Shankar, with Kavita Seth scoring music for the songs. It was photographed by cinematographer Declan Quinn, with Nick Fenton and Tanupriya Sharma, edited the series.

A Suitable Boy was premiered in the United Kingdom through BBC One, which was aired from 26 July 2020 to 24 August 2020. It was globally premiered through the streaming platform Netflix (excluding North America and China), with all the six episodes were released on 23 October 2020. In the United States and Canada, the series premiered through Acorn TV, on 7 December 2020. The series received mixed response from critics, praising the performances of the cast members, and the setting of the story received praise, but panned the stereotypical portrayal of India, writing and direction.

Plot

A Suitable Boy is set in 1951, a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra (Mahira Kakkar) and her efforts over the arrangement of the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala), to a "suitable boy". Lata is a 19-year-old university student who refuses to be influenced by her domineering mother or opinionated brother, Arun Mehra (Vivek Gomber). Her story revolves around the choice she is forced to make between her suitors.

Cast

• Tabu as Saeeda Bai
• Ishaan Khatter as Maan Kapoor
• Tanya Maniktala as Lata Mehra
• Rasika Dugal as Savita Kapoor
• Mahira Kakkar as Rupa Mehra
• Ram Kapoor as Mahesh Kapoor (State Minister of Revenue)
• Gagan Dev Riar as Pran Kapoor
• Vivek Gomber as Arun Mehra
• Vivaan Shah as Varun Mehra
• Shahana Goswami as Meenakshi Mehra
• Mikhail Sen as Amit Chatterji
• Thomas Weinhappel as Hans
• Namit Das as Haresh Khanna
• Danesh Razvi as Kabir Durrani
• Joyeeta Dutta as Tasneem
• Sharvari Deshpande as Malati
• Shujaat Khan as Ustad Majeed Khan
• Shubham Saraf as Firoz Khan
• Randeep Hooda as Billy Irani
• Aamir Bashir as Nawab of Baitar
• Ranvir Shorey as Waris
• Vijay Varma as Rasheed
• Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Kishen Chand Seth
• Vinay Pathak as L.N. Agrawal
• Manoj Pahwa as Raja Of Marh
• Sadaf Jafar as Bibbo
• Mansi Multani as Kalpana Gaur
• Amrita Dass as the Sweet Lady
• Anshdeep Singh as Sikh Classical music player.

Release

The first look stills of A Suitable Boy was released on 2 December 2019, through the social media platforms. On 11 July 2020, the official trailer of the series was released through YouTube. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2020 on BBC One, with the first episode being aired on the said date, and was ended on 24 August 2020.

The global distribution rights for the series (excluding North America and China), were acquired by Netflix. On 16 July 2020, Netflix announced the release of seventeen Indian originals, along with the Hindi dubbed version. The series released on 23 October 2020. The series premiered through Acorn TV, which bought the distribution rights for the United States and Canada regions, on 7 December 2020.

Reception

Critical response

The show received mixed reactions from critics. Robyn Bahr of The Hollywood Reporter stated "The potency of Seth's story remains intact; Davies and Nair's stylization nearly clobbers it." Judy Berman, chief editor of Time magazine, wrote: "A Suitable Boy transcends escapism, it’s because she brought the substance along with the sparkle." Jude Dry of IndieWire wrote: "A Suitable Boy lacks the comedic touch of Downton Abbey or the critical lens of The Crown, languishing somewhere in the middle and coming up short. Without a defined perspective on the class and religious conflict it uses as a narrative backdrop, A Suitable Boy feels like frothy fluff — yummy in the moment but easily forgettable and won’t fill you up."

Chitra Ramaswamy of The Guardian stated: "It is beautiful, expensive and groundbreaking in its casting, yet Andrew Davies’s adaptation of Vikram Seth’s tome still feels uncomfortably old-school". The Independent magazine, chief reporter Ed Cumming wrote "This adaptation of Vikram Seth’s epic, 1300-page novel seemed promising, but we’ll have to keep waiting for an Indian family saga of rugged verisimilitude." Writing for The Times, Carol Midgley stated "a zesty new drama with a slight hint of cheese". Flora Cairr of Radio Times, reviewed the first episode of the series and stated "By the end of episode one, the seeds of violence and heartbreak have already been sewn, in addition to a scandalous secondary storyline involving adultery and melted-down family medals."

Writing for Hindustan Times, Rohan Nahhar wrote: "An astonishing cast, led by Ishaan Khatter, Tabu and Tanya Maniktala, struggles to make the most of minimal screentime and a mediocre script in Mira Nair’s unsuitable adaptation of Vikram Seth’s novel." Anupama Chopra, editor-in-chief of Film Companion wrote: "Mira Nair delivers a visually sumptuous saga which, despite the sizable bumps, is ultimately satisfying." Pankhuri Shukla of The Quint, praised the cast members for the acting sequences, but opined that "the English dialogues seem to be a deterrent to the actors' performances, with the occasional Urdu/Punjabi/Hindi dialogues sprinkled here and there are the only saving grace." Mimi Anthikkad Chibber of The Hindu wrote: "There is no dearth of stereotypes in this adaptation of Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel, yet the show moves too briskly and looks too lovely to ignore".

Devansh Sharma of Firstpost wrote "Seth's book was never celebrated for its plot anyway. Its primary claim to excellence was the language. Neatly and inventively crafted, Seth's words were both transportive and evocative. The translation to visuals achieves only half the job." India Today's Nairita Mukherjee wrote: "A Suitable Boy Review: In 2020, the world is capable of accepting and appreciating non-English content, as long as it has the power of good writing. That's where Mira Nair's adaptation of Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy stumbles." In a positive note, Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV wrote "A Suitable Boy, does not miss a beat in funnelling a massive novel into an intricately stitched, necessarily pared filmed version. This panoramic portrait of a newly-free nation and fast-changing social segments within it has an easy-flowing quality that belies the sheer magnitude of the exercise." Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express wrote "The book has enough time and more to get into long, languid, eloquent descriptions of locations, characters, situations; in Mira Nair and Andrew Davies hands, the chop-chop eventually overcomes the choppiness, and becomes its own creature."

Controversies

The series attracted controversy when Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra objected to a scene in which the characters Lata (Tanya Maniktala) and Kabir (Danesh Razvi) are shown kissing each other within the premises of a temple. His statement came after a Bharatiya Janata Party Youth leader, Gaurav Tiwari, filed a complaint against the makers on 22 November 2020 for "allegedly hurting religious sentiments". Tiwari also appealed to people at large on Twitter to uninstall the platform Netflix (which bought its global streaming rights) from their phones, as #BoycottNetflix began to trend on Twitter. It was further criticised for portraying Love Jihad. On 25 November, an FIR was filed against two executives from Netflix India, in response to the complaint registered by Tiwari.

External links

• සැකිල්ල:BBC programmes
• අ සූටබල් බෝයි සඳහා නෙට්ෆ්ලික්ස් තුළ ඇති තොරතුරු
• අ සූටබල් බෝයි හා සබැඳි අයිඑම්ඩීබී යොමුව