Book to Screen Club: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Released this month on Netflix is The White Tiger, the Man Booker-winning novel from Aravind Adiga. Published in 2008, it is the story of Balram Halwei and his struggle to rise through the class system of India. The film was directed and adapted by Ramin Bahrani (Fahrenheit 451, Push Cart Man, 99 Homes), and produced by ARRAY Filmworks, Lava Media, Netflix and Noruz Films. It stars Adarsh Gourav (Balram), Rajkummar Rao (Ashok), Priyanka Chopra (Pinky), Mahesh Manjrekar (The Stork), Nalneesh Neel (Vitiligo), Vijay Maurya (Mongoose).

You can skip to 10.45 to get the actually review if you don't want to hear out chitchat! As per usual spoilers aplenty! We break down the book and the film and try and figure out whether or not the original is the best or did they improve on the text.

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