When Mira Nair came to Mumbai last year for the shoot of A Suitable Boy, there were two things she was looking forward to— guava ice cream with chilli powder and Ishaan Khatter’s acting. The young actor, who was selected to play Maan Kapoor in the six-part BBC miniseries, jumped in joy when he heard that. It was one of the biggest compliments he would get as an actor.
In Vikram Seth’s eponymous novel, if a character could be described as unsuitable, yet fascinating, it has to be Maan. The novel, set in the 1950s, revolves around the hunt for a suitable boy for college-going Lata. But it also captures the essence of newly independent India and the burgeoning hate for Islam in pockets. In the midst of all this, Maan—the younger son of India’s revenue minister Mahesh Kapoor and brother-in-law of Lata’s elder sister Savita—is full of dichotomies.
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