6/10/2023 0 Comments A Suitable Boy by Vikram SethEldest daughter Savita (Rasika Dugal) weds a lowly college professor. Eldest son Arun (Vivek Gomber), a snobbish arriviste, has married a trifling urbanite (Shahana Goswami) who sleeps around and melts down her dead father-in-law’s military medals to make herself some earrings. The Mehras lost significant stature upon the death of their locomotive engineer patriarch, resulting in his widow’s struggle to make prominent matches for their adult children. Their lives will soon be plagued with violence. For a TV series that, at its core, alludes to the injurious long-lasting consequences of colonial hegemony, it sure does prioritize and concretize Western, especially Anglophilic, tastes.Ī Suitable Boy opens on a Hindu wedding that intertwines the Mehras and the Kapoors, two cosmopolitan families still reeling from the dissolution of the British Raj and the inter-religious discord that resulted in the separated nations of India and Pakistan. I can only wonder how A Suitable Boy might have soared if its cast were allowed to mostly converse in Hindi, Hindustani and Urdu instead of merely peppering snippets of these languages into predominantly English dialogue.
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