
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
EPIC TV SERIES ADAPTATION AT BBC
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The book will become a five part series |
As Deadline reports today, British broadcaster
BBC is set to make an epic period set five episode series out of
A PASSAGE TO INDIA famous classic from
E.M. Forster. Richie Mehta is writing and directing. Written exactly a hundred years ago and adapted last time back in the 80s, it is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s, with the story revolving around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Mr. Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Adela Quested. The series will apparently "reclaim colonial history" and "turn the novel on its head."
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