Cultural appropriation

It's interesting to juxtapose the debate surrounding the cast of A Suitable Boy with that of another film which premiered at TIFF last year

For closing its abridged event this year, the Toronto International Film Festival or TIFF chose A Suitable Boy, Mira Nair’s six-part adaptation for the BBC of Vikram Seth’s saga set in a newly independent India. The filmmaker has left her stamp on the sparkling series as over a hundred characters laugh, love, fight, riot, tango, scheme and weep on screen, in locations and costumes as authentic as Mrs Mehra’s determination to find a suitable boy for her daughter Lata. The series has been hailed as a landmark for the BBC in commissioning a wholly Indian story, and more importantly, for