India, Nov. 6 -- It is always special when a beloved book gets a new life on screen. This time, Jhumpa Lahiri's internationally acclaimed 2008 short story collection, Unaccustomed Earth, is being adapted into an eight-episode series. Starring Freida Pinto and Siddharth, the show brings together characters and stories from the original collection, weaving them into a continuous narrative.

The trailer introduces Freida Pinto as Parul Chaudhary, a married Indian-American woman and mother who begins to realise that she has been sleepwalking through life. After being diagnosed with cancer, she returns from Mumbai to her old life at Cambridge, US. The change brings her face-to-face with memories of her past, including an old love played by Sid...