One week remains before the arrival of the Chinese Prime Minister in India. Balram, a local manufacturer and businessman, sits at a laptop and writes a letter of his life to the Chinese leader: He grew up in terrible poverty from childhood with no hope of a bright future. His only dream was to become a servant of a rich man. And his dream came true when the son of a wealthy local “businessman” returns from America. Balram uses all means to become the driver of a wealthy “master”. This working with rich people environment changes the worldview of poor and mimetic people.
With black humor and at the same time without bright colors tells a heartbreaking story and draws the curtain from India’s shocking social set-up or gap between classes.
A fierce social drama with amazing irony and the uncharacteristic manner of Indian cinema, with black humor and at the same time without bright colors tells a heartbreaking story and draws the curtain from India’s shocking social set-up or gap between classes. The White Tiger is a screen adaptation of the 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name by Aravind Adiga.
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