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If Sutra Americana were to be made into a movie, or preferably a television series, I would love to have the very talented Shuchi Talati write and direct it. She directed Girls Will Be Girls (2023) a moving film about a mother-daughter relationship set in modern-day India. She is able to capture intimate relationships between characters with real subtlety and power. Because my novel is so much about the dynamics of family members, moments of conflict as well as of love, I think Talati would be the perfect director for this material. The novel also has the social backdrop of America as it goes through the upheavals of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and...[read on]Visit Monona Wali's website.
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