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In the 1880 British elections, William Scott, the Earl of Dalkeith, was in for a nasty surprise when the pamphlet ‘Political Achievements of the Earl of Dalkeith’ was circulated in Scotland. On opening it, a prospective voter would find 32 blank pages. Almost a century-and-a-half later, the joke still hasn’t got old. Matteo Salvini of the right-wing Italian party Northern League was a recent victim of this ‘novel’ prank, when a 110-empty-pager titled, Why Salvini Deserves Trust, Respect and Admiration, written by ‘Alex Green’, the pseudonym of a ‘political analyst’, began c...

Including Let Them All Talk, The Wilds, A Suitable Boy, and Wolfwalkers by Norman Wilner on December 11th, 2020 at 9:00 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5 Our critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of December 11, and list everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. A Suitable Boy (Mira Nair) Mira Nair’s landmark BBC miniseries is an expensive, elaborate adaptation of Vikram Seth’s 1993 novel, and the first such production to feature an almost entirely South Asian cast. Seth’s tale of people finding their way in a newly partitioned nation is told through the eyes and exp...

AVC: Is it fair to say that you’ve been thinking about this book as a filmmaker since you read it? MN: Not at all. I read it as a reader—twice, I loved it so much. It inspired me, but I never even thought at that time that I would make it into a film. This was 1993. TV streaming series and long-form cinema were not in the vocabulary. I’m an independent feature filmmaker, and I never thought to make it a series. AVC: It’s really visually stunning, right from the beginning. MN: It is also, I have to say, an embrace of decay—to show aristocracy, but to show it warts and all, in a sense...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Nobody throws a wedding party like Mira Nair. Her six-part series, "A Suitable Boy," opens at a wedding - piles of flower petals, bright saris twirling, brilliant turbans swirled as a bride and groom, who have spent perhaps an hour together total, under the gaze of a chaperone, are joined for life. At a moment of supreme celebration, a young woman, Lata, tells her mother... (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "A SUITABLE BOY") TANYA MANIKTALA: (As Lata Mehra) I don't think I ever want to get married. MAHIRA KAKKAR: (As Rupa Mehra) What else are you going to do?

Ishaan Khatter, who was last seen in the action comedy film Khaali Peeli along with Ananya Panday, has been featured in the December cover of Grazia India. After teasing fans with a behind the scenes sneak preview into the photo shoot, t...