I think we can agree that America is so yesterday… It s the century of the brown man and the yellow man.
So says Balram (Adarsh Gourav), the anti-hero of this Eastern morality fable and, given the recent images from Capitol Hill, it is hard to argue with him.
But even had the West not been on a collision course with idiocracy, as it has the last while, The White Tiger (based on Aravind Adiga s 2008 Man Booker winner) would still sing subversively off the screen about a long overdue tilt in the global axis of power. And within that axis itself, there lies tangles of class exclusion, post-colonial fallout, and the very worst degradations of market libertarianism. Adiga s novel managed to do what all great tales do - explain the broad brushstrokes through a macro lens.
There’s little of the intimacy of director Ramin Bahrani’s best work, and while The White Tiger has been described as dark-humored on the page, the movie feels more like a typical prestige adaptation.
The White Tiger Review: Social Commentary With Real Teeth
The White Tiger Review: Social Commentary With Real Teeth The White Tiger Review: Although set, very specifically, in India,
The White Tiger is an allegory that could take place anywhere, and that feels uncomfortably familiar. The White Tiger Review: A still from the film. (courtesy priyankachopra)
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Rajkummar Rao, Adarsh Gourav, Mahesh Manjrekar
Director: Ramin Bahrani
There s a sense of snarling menace implicit in
The White Tiger, a subversive, sharp-toothed dramedy of upward social mobility by writer-director Ramin Bahrani (
99 Homes), based on Aravind Adiga s best-selling 2008 novel, which won the Man Booker Prize. It s not just in the title, a metaphorical moniker for uniqueness slapped on the film s ambitious protagonist, a canny but impoverished low-caste Indian named Balram (Adarsh Gourav), as a child. It s there, lurking in every shadow of this dark rags-to-riches tale itself: a coi
January 6, 2021
Adarsh Gourav, left, and Rajkummar Rao in “The White Tiger.” MUST CREDIT: Singh Tejinder/Netflix (via The Washington Post Syndication Service)
There’s a sense of snarling menace implicit in “The White Tiger,” a subversive, sharp-toothed dramedy of upward social mobility by writer-director Ramin Bahrani (“99 Homes”), based on Aravind Adiga’s best-selling 2008 novel, which won the Man Booker Prize.
It’s not just in the title, a metaphorical moniker for uniqueness slapped on the film’s ambitious protagonist, a canny but impoverished low-caste Indian named Balram (Adarsh Gourav), as a child. It’s there, lurking in every shadow of this dark rags-to-riches tale itself: a coiled threat to the traditional world order of haves and have-nots, just waiting to pounce.
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