The White Tiger

If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog @ https://www.msbreviews.com Even though The White Tiger isn’t exactly the first review I published in 2021, it was the first film I watched at the start of this new year. I really didn’t know what to expect. I’ve never seen anything from any actor involved in the movie or from the writer-director, Ramin Bahrani. I still follow the “trailer-free” philosophy that I established back in 2017, so my knowledge about the actual story was close to null. Nevertheless, all of these details left me quite excited, to be completely…

Humanity’s worst kept secret is that the world of wealth and privilege go hand in hand, and that idea is explored in “The White Tiger,” the big screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga‘s 2008 prize-winning novel. The author wrote the book as a critique of the state of things in his home country, but the situation in India and the story’s themes of corruption within the political system and the separation of the elite and working classes is universally relatable to most citizens across the globe. Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) narrates his rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern…

A little in the style of "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949), successful entrepreneur "Balram" (Adarsh Gourav) is writing a letter to the Chinese prime minster who is about to visit Delhi. Rather disparagingly referring to the such things as the prioritisation of plumbing over industrialisation, he paints a picture of the shared aspirations and values of the "brown" and "yellow" people whilst triumphantly stating that the days of the "white man" are over. As his writings ramble on, he takes us back to his own (very) humble beginnings in a rural town where his family were ruled with a rod of…