#a suitable boy

[crazyrichxplainr]

Shubham Saraf for The Rake (ph: Kim Lang)

#shubham saraf #shubhamsarafedit #shantaram #a suitable boy #flawlessgentlemen #southasianrep #mancandykings #southasiansource #asiansincinema #asiancentral #glamoroussource #dailymalesource #dailymalestarsedit #dailymalecelebs #dailymenedit #menedit #appletv #bbc

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Ishaan Khatter as Maan Kapoor & Tanya Maniktala as Lata Mehra in A Suitable Boy (Miniseries, 2020). 

#ishaan khatter #tanya maniktala #a suitable boy #perioddramaedit #maan kapoor #lata mehra #20th century #1950s #Arjun Bhasin

[zutarasbuff]

Manifesting the kind of relationship where he is mesmerised by her and kisses the ground she walks on!!!

#desi stuff #desi tag #desi things #desi couple #desi aesthetic #desiblr #desi romance #desi tumblr #hindi cinema #a suitable boy #tabu #desi love #desi movies #classic bollywood #bollywood #aesthetics

[i-got-the-feels]

#tabu #a suitable boy #She!!!

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

your smile heals all of my pain🤍

#desi tumblr #desi academia #desi #desi girl #desi aesthetic #desi culture #desi humor #desiblr #poetry tumblr #hindi shayari #urdu shayari #a suitable boy #lata kabir #trending #tv series #bbc

[thisdoesntseamright]

trying to summon the motivation to restart (again)

#bookworm #books and reading #books #book #booklr #bookblr #books and literature #booksbooksbooks #a suitable boy #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #idk how to tag this #idk #big books

[pyarkanaghma]

Arjun bhasin on designing the wardrobe for a suitable boy in an interview with the scroll.

Personally I loved menakshi and saeeda bai's styles the most

#a suitable boy #tabu #mira nair #south asian fashion #filmblr #foreign film #bollywood #rekha #vintage bollywood #Indian cinema #desi tumblr #maja ma #bollywood aesthetics #indian fashion

[movieachaar]

“Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else.” ― richard siken

#dead poets society #poetry #a suitable boy #bollywood #quotes #poemsdaily #lovely #movieachaar

[vintageindianclothing]

I would love to hear your thoughts on the Gangubai Kathiawadi film!

Anonymous asked:

Hi! May I request a post about the costumes in 'a suitable boy'? It's set in post british India and the clothes in it are just gorgeous! Especially all the sarees.

Firstly I apologise for the late replies. I blog infrequently these days and am also usually not on social media so I end up having a backlog.

To answer your question, when I do movie costume analyses, it is usually of old movies through which I can show the fashions of the time. Sometimes I do a period drama, e.g. Lootera or Byomkesh Bakshy!, when I feel part of the movie's appeal is in trying to recreate the milieu of the time it is set in.

Coming to Gangubai, there is no doubt that the costumes are arresting. The use of white is interesting, a nod to old films as well as a deliberate choice given the subject matter.

With many period films, the aim is to give the audience a feeling of the era the movie is set in but this is filtered through the modern aesthetic. From what I have seen of Gangubai this seems to be the case for this movie too. Of course there will be visuals that evoke the past clearly - example the poster of Alia in a blouse and petticoat which was common at the time among sex workers. However, by and large, it fits into the director's personal sense of aesthetics, which tends to be a bit dramatic.

There is an interview with the costume designer which most folk may be familiar with.

Coming to A Suitable Boy, I have had many queries regarding the TV series. As it happens, I am not really a fan of the novel. Coming to the TV series, I absolutely love Mira Nair's aesthetic. However, she is again a director who imprints her own aesthetic on period dramas (see for example Kama Sutra, Vanity Fair). I think this is the case with A Suitable Boy too. I am not at all critical of such an approach and it has its own appeal.

However, I usually don't review such films from a costume perspective. With the trailers and clips I have seen of ASB, I wasn't immediately drawn in from a fidelity to costumes perspective though the visuals are lovely.

One of the things I felt with my albeit brief viewing of ASB is that the body language felt a bit modern. Long time wearers of a saree or salwar move differently - if that makes any sense!

An interesting long interview with this movie's costume designer is linked.

TLDR I haven't reviewed these because I wasn't immediately drawn to the costumes from a analyses perspective, albeit I think they are well researched and fairly accurate from what I have seen. And I did enjoy the visuals a great deal.

#period drama #costume design #a suitable boy #gangubai kathiawadi #tumblr query

[indiansapphic]

humko unse wafaa ki hai umeed,

jo nahi jaan te,

wafaa kya hai.

I expect love from them,

who do not know,

what love is.

#lyrics #bhairavi ke bol #dil e nadaan #a suitable boy

[tanhachaand]

मेरी तो यहीं इच्छा थी कि शाम को सूरज ढले, चाय धीमी आंच पर उबले और टेबल की दूसरी तरफ मुस्कुराते तुम कुछ कहो, कुछ सुनो

#chai #chai aesthetic #A suitable boy #Chai peene chalo ab bahot hogaya #Chai date #me when

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

it took me a while into the audiobook and a switch to kindle to stop wondering why on earth Lata Mehra's mother is called Mrs Rupamehra and how a male Agarwal can possibly be an Ellen

#a suitable boy #vikram seth #indian literature #can i blame this on the playback speed #i can and i will #i admit i have no excuse with mrs rupamehra #but ellen agarwal is definitely a victim of my impatient listening #books

[peachypaddys]

thinking about a suitable boy again and how maan looked at saeeda and firoz the SAME way in scenes that come RIGHT AFTER the other

#ppl were calling it queerbait ijbol #it's 1950s india dude #have some common sense #use visual cues and blatant acting choices to think critically about media!! #a suitable boy #desi lgbt

[vipassanamahale]

#gazal #vipassanamahale #cover song #a suitable boy #kavita seth

[i-got-the-feels]

Tabu in a suitable boy is just!!

#a suitable boy #Tabu

[elephantserendipity]

I just watched 'A Suitable Boy' series and I'm FURIOUS, how is it possible Lata didn't end up with Kabir????

Haresh is the safe option, I see that shit in real life everyday, I don't want to see it in fiction too!!

And Lata... oh man, she really tricks us, seems a fighter at the beginning and see how convenient she turns out to be.

Disappointing.

#a suitable boy #series #kabir my dear i'd totally fight for u