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Freida Pinto in military drama series based on Anuradha Bhagwati’s memoir

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Updated At : 01:19 PM Dec 20, 2019 IST

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Freida Pinto will top-line the series adaptation of former US Marine captain Anuradha Bhagwati’s memoir. The book, Unbecoming: A Story of Disobedience, was published in March this year and chronicles her journey from a dutiful daughter to radical activist effecting historic policy reform.

“Bhagwati spurned graduate school to join the Marines, but once there her GI Jane fantasy was deflated. As a bisexual woman of colour in the military, she ran up against misogyny, sexual violence and racism…,” the official logline read. — PTI

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