The White Tiger

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NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX PRODUCTION STARING PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND PRODUCED BY AVA DUVERNAY As angry smart and dark as Parasite. Standard The anti-Slumdog Millionaire Hollywood Reporter Heres a strange fact: murder a man and you feel responsible for his life - possessive even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus but you know his corpse. Meet Balram Halwai the White Tiger: servant philosopher entrepreneur... murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop crushing coal and wiping tables but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur he takes his opportunity and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid cockroaches call-centres thirty-six-million gods slums shopping malls and crippling traffic jams Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.