A Suitable Boy

Then not thug!

Just watched episode 5. As I mentioned up thread, I was born in India thug we came back to England in1954 when I was quite young. We lived in Calcutta, at Sunny Park in Ballygunge where Lata’s Brother and wife lived! It was strange to see it as one of the settings of this episode. It was obviously quite an upmarket apartment block. We found it when we had a holiday in India, though it had been demolished and a multi storey block put up in its place, though the buildings around seemed original.

pollyperkins ah! So that was it, so actually they could have married though presumably he, Maan was still too young and fancied the older woman.....

All the men were a bit unsatisfactory but it was set in the 1950s
no "New Men", then.

Amit, the poet was a Chatterji and related in some way too.
I will need to look up the family tree.

No the one in prison was her sisters husband brother. Her sisters husband was the serious one in glasses.
I got her muslin suitor mixed up with him as they looked very alike.
I was never sure who the poet was, or who was the creepy one who came into her bedroom. I think they were all in Calcutta.

I went to watch the last one and fell promptly asleep for the whole of it
I really didn’t get it all up to then and getting more and more muddled with the varying characters Certainly didn’t love it but I ll try and finish it on the iPad
I m not that bothered who she married to be honest the Muslim boy seemed the best to me but it didn’t really bother me if she went off to a nunnery I didn’t believe in her and her ‘ma’ Too much I m afraid

merlotgran

I watched the last two episodes with Luckygirl's family tree open on my laptop. I still had problems working out the relationships though.

Not Luckygirl's family tree

The one she posted a link to upthread!

MayBee70 the one in prison was Maan who was Lata's cousin so he was never going to be in the running.

He advised her (very unlikely) not to go with her passion (the Muslim) because look where passion had got him!

The characters were hard to distinguish at times but you can google a cast list if it helps.

www.google.com/search?q=suitable+boy+cast&oq=suitable+boy+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j69i59j0j46j0j69i60l3.9794j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I loved it and was so glad she went for the shoemaker. Lust can fade but friendship might endure. The photograhy was brilliant and not a shaky camera to be seen. I'm really sad to lose it!

MayBee70 It was her brother who ended up in prison, wasn’t it?

I watched the last two episodes with Luckygirl's family tree open on my laptop. I still had problems working out the relationships though.

It was only at the end that I realised that the unkind & snobby man was Lata’s brother.

SPOILER ALERT: Well, I’ve now got to rewatch it properly. Serves me right for being sniffy about it at the start. I ended up loving it. The minute the shoemaker appeared I saw the humour that was in the series: till then I just thought it was meant to be terribly serious and political. And the minute he walked away from his first job on principle I realised he was the good guy. I may buy the book: doubt if I’ll read it as I struggle to finish even the shortest book these days, but just to dip in and get a flavour of it. I’m thinking it’s probably written in a Captain Corelli Mandolin sort of way ie showing the story from each characters perspective and I loved that book. I really wasn’t expecting the ending, though. For some reason I kept thinking she’d end up meeting and falling in love with the one who ended up in prison. Apologies to Andrew Davies as well: it must have been a devil of a job compressing the book into 6 episodes. Mind you, I still haven’t fathomed out who everybody is.....

Oops - I underestimated. Apparently its 1,400 pages!

Finally, in these last 2 episodes, I just about worked out who was who.!!

Really enjoyed it in the end, ( now want another series, was Lata's mother hinting at "A Suitable Girl" for her youngest son? )

I enjoyed the series, it was lovely to look at, but I felt it was all a bit "soapy" and contrived in the end. I liked the shoemaker best though
I haven't read the book and I wondered if it was just too much to try to get 800 pages into 6 hours?

I didn’t like the shoemaker, there didn’t seem to be chemistry between them, and in the end she settled for her mother’s choice, a rather boring but solid young man. I was hoping she’d go for her real love, the Muslim (can’t remember his name.)
A disappointing ending.

Gosh. I was really surprised that she didn't somehow go for the Muslim boy (can't remember his name). The shoemaker was a real trier and I wondered what would happen to him but, no chemistry there at all.
Enjoyed the series though. I recommend 'Indian Matchmaking' on Netflix. Fascinating documentary series.

I really enjoyed the series it made a refreshing change and I'll miss it.

Yes I agree. In the penultumate episode everything seemed to be going wrong for just about everyone, but it all ended well and I was rooting for the shoemaker in the end too. Latas mum did remind me of Mrs Bennett!

I loved the ending as well. The courtroom scene was a little cheesy but it was always going to end well.

Lata chose the right man.

So what did you all think? I loved it.
All those unlikely twists at the end and the breathtaking images continued all the way through. Lata's smile from the train.....
We need a sequel.
Thank you BBC.

I'm really enjoying it, then I love Bollywood. The vibrance, scenery, colour and music and of course the beauty of its people.

It’s starting to grow on me. I love the shoe man. C’mon Lata...see beyond the looks. He’s the good guy and I’m gunning for him.

I’m enjoying both the series and the book (on the Kindle).

I’m rather fond of Bollywood style, not that I’d really put this into that category. When we lived in Oman and it was too hot in high summer even to go to the pool until about 5 pm, there was always an Indian film on TV on Friday (their Sunday) afternoons. Always lots of singing and dancing, and poor downtrodden boy/girl ends up marrying rich, good looking girl/boy.
Not unlike Catherine Cookson stories, in fact, but a lot more colourful!

I find it hard to believe that the screenplay was written by the same Andrew Davies who did Les Miserables. I just looked it up to double check.