A Suitable Boy

In the early '50s, 19-year-old college student Lata Mehra (Tanya Maniktala) was already being steered towards arranged marriage by her domineering mother (Mahira Kakkar). She elected to follow her heart instead, and the repercussions across a year and a half-and the lives of four families-are tellingly observed in Mira Nair's epic miniseries adaptation of the Vikram Seth novel. Ishaan Khatter, Tabu, Namit Das, Vivek Gomber, Ram Kapoor, Danesh Razvi, Shahana Goswami also star. 6 hrs. On 2 discs. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English/