The director insisted on the Indian casting, which she described as 'radical for England', and said the BBC backed the decision from the beginning
But the screenwriter Andrew Davies has reassured audiences that they will relate to his new adaptation of Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, the first BBC drama to be made without a single British actor - a project jokingly referred to by its director as “The Crown in brown”.
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