The White Tiger

 The White Tiger is a  India based American drama film directed by Ramin Bahrani. The film stars Adarsh Gourav in his first leading role, along with Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkumar Rao. The film was produced by Mukul Deora, and executive produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas. An adaptation of Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel of the same name the story is about Balram, who comes from a poor Indian village and uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty.

Balram halwai(Adarsh Gourav) narrates his miltoinian and darkly humorous rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. Cunning and ambitious, our young hero rider his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkumar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America.  The Society and the upbringing from a poor family has made clear Balram to be one thing - a servant - so he makes himself indispensable to his rich masters. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to grow  up and become a new kind of master.

One of the most remarkable things about Adiga’s book was its timing. Published in 2008, it pricked the self-mythologising and self-congratulatory lies of neo-liberal India — encouraged by its Western counterparts — that it had liberated itself from the confines of limited opportunities, becoming a country ruled by meritocracy, equality, and freedom. The story of Balram, told with acidic humour and discomfiting bite, depicted the difficulties of escaping the “rooster coop”, juxtaposing the lived reality with inflated declarations.

The main problem with the film is not that it deviates from the source material, but that it is faithful — too faithful — to it. A good adaptation takes the essence of a piece and creates its own language. The movie reveres the novel so much that it often struggles to look beyond it. It wants to cram the film with as many lines from the book as it can, resulting in some awkward scenes. So if i give the point to movie out of 10 will be 7(7/10)