“And there was a cauldron really of this kind of politics at that time, and what Vikram [Seth] does so brilliantly and captured the pulse so well is about a country finding itself and about a donation of characters finding themselves. “
Discussing filming the show, Nair added: “Our world is an Anglicised one, but it’s also another one. It’s also rural India, it’s also the politics of what’s happening when you have the first national election.
“We are people speaking Urdu and in Hindustani because of the place we are set. And, and you know restored, in part, that language, our languages, to create a much more realistic authentic truthful universe.
“We are people speaking Urdu and in Hindustani because of the place we are set.
“And, and you know restored, in part, that language, our languages, to create a much more realistic authentic truthful universe.
“In fact, Vikram thanked me for translating it back to that, and that kind of mixing is exactly what we are like, and then and now and for me, it was very important to, show how we are today, because of what we were then.
“It’s a mirror, A Suitable Boy is a mirror of our society, and it was important to be truthful, to be authentic, to be colourful, mischievous all of those things, and I had such great talent really a lot around me who could take each one of these ideas further.”
A Suitable Boy starts Sunday, July 26 at 9pm on BBC One