HBO is developing an OTT adaptation of Indian Canadian author Rohinton Mistry’s 1996 Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, “A Fine Balance”, starring Ritesh Batra, director of the much-acclaimed Irrfan Khan-starrer, “The Lunchbox”. running the project.
The seven-part web series, reports ‘Variety’, is being produced by Blueprint Pictures, which operated “A Very British Scandal” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, and Northwood Entertainment, which operated “Ann with an E”. “was behind. , It will be shot in India from early June to November.
“A Fine Balance”, first published in Canada in 1995 by McClelland and Stewart, won the 1995 Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize.
A Mumbai-born St Xavier’s College alumnus, Mistry’s first novel, “Such a Long Journey”, which was also shortlisted for Booker in 1991, was made into a 1998 film starring British-Indian actor Roshan Seth.
Reporting the story, Variety notes that “A Fine Balance”, which centers around a wealthy widow, two tailors and a young student from different parts of Indian society, lives in a small apartment. Traces the political landscape of India, from the country’s independence in 1947 to the state of emergency of 21 months called by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi between 1975 and 1977.
Since its publication, ‘Variety’, the book, most recently theatricalized by the BBC for its 2021 radio drama, is considered one of the most important novels about India after independence.
It was selected by Oprah’s Book Club, a rare feat for a Canadian novel at the time, in 2001, and also won the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Overall.
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