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They chatted about ‘The White Tiger,’ Hollywood’s ‘lie’ and more (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Vanity Fair; Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Sundance; Lily illustration) Lena Felton Feb. 1, 2021 If you’ve been recently stalking the Netflix homepage for the latest trending original movie, you have probably come across “The White Tiger.” You might’ve been fooled by its seemingly carefree opening scene, in which a Jay-Z song blasts through a car’s speaker as Pinky (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) drives through Delhi’s streets at night without abandon. She’s laughing with her husband, Ashok (Rajkummar Rao), and their servant, Balram (Adarsh Gourav). But within a matter of minutes, you realize something must be wrong. ....
NEW YORK (CNS) Seventy years have passed since cunning understudy Anne Baxter usurped glamorous star Bette Davis in All About Eve. Now, with The White Tiger (Netflix), comes a grittier, ethically unmoored take on ambition and deceit set in modern-day India. ....
Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘White Tiger’ tells a bloody capitalist fable The new Netflix film “The White Tiger” tells the story of Balram, who is born to a poor family in the Indian village of Laxmangarh and escapes by using his intelligence and determination, ultimately becoming a successful entrepreneur in Bangalore. Viewers knows this from the start, as Balram (played by Adarsh Gourav) narrates his life story in an email, apparently written to explain his success to China’s visiting head of state. That narration is one of the best things about the movie, providing plenty of black comedy while also allowing Balram to justify his choices in what by his own admission is an increasingly disturbing story. ....
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at ....
Netflix Do we loathe our masters behind a façade of love, or do we love them behind a façade of loathing? This is just one of the questions that Balram Halwai, a poor, village-bred Indian boy and the central character of the movie The White Tiger, asks himself as he works as a chauffeur to a rich businessman in Delhi. The movie, newly released on Netflix, is an adaptation of the Booker Prize- winning debut novel of the same name by Indian author Aravind Adiga. Produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and directed by Ramin Bahrani, the film offers a grim tale of corruption and betrayal, examining the complex dynamics of the employer-servant relationships in India while delving into the country s stark rich-poor divide and its class and caste issues. ....