BBC RELEASES TRAILER AND AIRING DATE FOR THEIR SPRAWLING INDIA SET TV SAGA A SUITABLE BOY BASED ON VIKRAM SETH'S CLASSIC NOVEL

  'A SUITABLE BOY' TRAILER

FOR NEW BBC'S INDIA SET SERIES

Although it was expected this spring or at the end of the year, BBC has decided to launch their all Indian period set series A SUITABLE BOY this month July 26th (there might be a clash with ITV's Singapore Grip on Sunday

A Suitable Boy will start airing July 26th, Sunday, on BBC One

nights). You can check out the trailer for the six episode small screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel directed by Mira Nair and written by War and Peace and Les Miserables scribe Andrew Davies.

A Suitable Boy Tells The Story
of spirited university student Lata (Tanya Maniktala); coming of age in North India in 1951 at the same time as the country is carving out its own identity as an independent nation and is about to go to the polls for its first

Tabu, who plays a courtesan, is a massive star in India

democratic general election. Lata’s mother is determined to find her a husband – a suitable boy – but Lata, torn between family duty and

Vikram Seth's book is considered one of the longest in English language

the excitement of romance, embarks on her own, epic journey of love and self-discovery. Connected to Lata through their siblings’ marriage, the wayward

The series will air in six hourlong episodes this summer

Maan (Ishaan Khatter) is determined to enjoy life to the full whatever the consequences, much to the concern of his politician father. But could his infatuation with beautiful courtesan Saaeda Bai (Tabu) be one step too far?

The whole series was shot entirely in India featuring an all Indian cast

Their stories play out during a tumultuous period for India and reflect the wider conflict between tradition and modernity at the time, as the election looms and the country decides its destiny.

JUDE LAW IS CAPTAIN HOOK IN DISNEY'S PETER PAN AND WENDY! MIRA NAIR TO DIRECT JUNGLE PRINCE OF DELHI TV SERIES FOR NETFLIX

 'PETER PAN & WENDY'

JUDE LAW IS CAPTAIN HOOK

I don't, for the life of me, know why would anyone want another adaptation of Peter Pan, especially as all the recent ones were deadly dreary

Jude Law has been offered the role of Captain Hook

and ghastly suffocating, but for some reason Hollyweird is making another PETER PAN AND WENDY movie and they don't give a damn what we think. But at least Captain Hook will be good as they've just cast Jude Law in the role. Disney is making a live action remake of their 1953 animated movie with David Lowery at the helm and with the story based on JM Barrie’s novel about the free spirited Peter Pan who takes Wendy Darling and her siblings John and Michael to Neverland, a magical land where children never grow up. Earlier this year it has been announced that British actor Alexander Molony will play Peter Pan, while newcomer Ever Anderson is set to become Wendy.

  'THE JUNGLE PRINCE OF DELHI'

TO BECOME NETFLIX TV SERIES

Maybe sounding a bit more fun is new TV series project over at Netflix who have hired Mira Nair to direct an international TV series adaptation of THE JUNGLE PRINCE OF DELHI, the New York Times exposé about the fake royal family of Oudh! As Deadline reports, the movie will bring us the

Prince Cyrus, left, and princess Sakina, with a man servant in Delhi, 1998

story of the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats living in a ruined palace in the Indian capital, claiming to be the heirs to a fallen kingdom. Written by Ellen Barry, it turns out that Prince Cyrus, who claimed to be a member of the Muslim kingdom captured by the British East India company in the 19th century was in fact Mickey Butt, the son of the registrar of Lucknow University.