Mira Nair Reflects on ‘A Suitable Boy,’ Her Epic Miniseries That Closes Toronto

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Shalini Dore Features News EditorMira Nair was finally able, after three years of production on the six-episode miniseries “A Suitable Boy,” to relax and reflect on the production, which aired on BBC One in the U.K.

and will close the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.“I was thrilled,” Nair says, when she found out it was playing at the festival. “I was thrilled because I really think of it as cinema, I can’t help it.Toronto is such a fantastic audience and festival that has the voice of the world and it has pretty much shown every film [of mine].

It’s a great sense of homecoming.”The festival will honor Nair with its Jeff Skoll Award in Impact Media as part of its tribute.