Mindy Kaling to adapt Sanjena Sathian's "Gold Diggers" for television
Exciting news!! 🎉🎉🎉 @sanjenasathian's forthcoming novel Gold Diggers (on sale 4/6) is being made into a television series by @mindykaling!! Learn more here: https://t.co/jxUKZFovIH
- penguinpress (@penguinpress) February 17, 2021
- Part of Kaling's deal with Warner Bros
- Sathian will co-write and Kaling will be executive producer
- Book comes out in April and is described as "a social satire and tale of magical realism"
- Lead male (Neil Narayan) and female (Anita Dayal) are both South Asian
- Story is about Neil helping Anita steal magic gold to save her mom's life
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OP is Indian and can confirm that claiming she will literally die without more gold is very on-brand for an Indian mom