HBO adapting Rohinton Mistry's award-winning novel A Fine Balance on India's history as a TV series

Variety

A seven-part series based on Mistry's Giller Prize-winning novel is expected to start filming in India in July. According to Variety, "the story — which centers on a rich widow, two tailors and a young student from vastly different parts of Indian society whose lives intersect in a tiny apartment — traverses the political landscape in India from the country’s independence in 1947 through to the 21-month state of emergency called by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi between 1975 and 1977. Since its publication, the book has earned a reputation as one of the foremost novels about India post-Independence."