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A Suitable Girl
A Suitable Girl may refer to: * ''A Suitable Girl'' (novel), an upcoming novel by Vikram Seth * ''A Suitable Girl'' (film), a 2017 documentary film * ''A Suitable Girl'', a 2017 album by Ali Barter {{DEFAULTSORT:Suitable Girl, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Suitable Girl (film)
''A Suitable Girl'' is a 2017 documentary film directed by Sarita Khurana and Smriti Mundhra. The film was screened at SAWCC on 7 April 2017 before premiering on 22 April at the Tribeca Film Festival, winning the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award. Khurana and Mundra were the first Desi women to earn the New Documentary Director Award. The film has also been screened at the British Film Institute Festival, Mumbai Film Festival, AFI Docs, Amazon and Netflix. In 2018, Library Journal reviewed and recommended the film be included in library collections. Synopsis ''A Suitable Girl'' follows three young women in India as they struggle to follow their dreams amid familial and cultural pressures to get married. Ritu, Dipti and Amrita are educated, financially stable contemporary middle-class women living in Mumbai and New Delhi. Yet their lives take a dramatic turn when the pressure to settle down and get married hits. Documenting the matchmaking process in ''vérité'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Suitable Girl (novel)
''A Suitable Girl'' is an upcoming novel by Vikram Seth that is a sequel to his 1993 book ''A Suitable Boy''. Seth has said the book will be set in the present, rather than in 1952 when ''A Suitable Boy'' finished, and will therefore be what Seth calls a "jump sequel". The book was announced in 2009 but has yet to be completed. After Seth missed a deadline to submit the manuscript to Penguin Publisher in June 2013, it was announced that the new novel would be published in autumn of 2016 by Orion Publishers, which had published ''A Suitable Boy''. In May 2015, it was reported that Seth was hoping to finish writing the book in 2016, for publication in 2017. Seth explained that he had missed the Penguin deadline due to suffering from writer's block as a result of the failure of a romantic relationship. As of 2023 the novel was still unfinished though Seth confirmed in a 2018 interview that he was still working on the book as well as more material in the ''A Suitable Boy ''A Sui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |