{"id":159848,"date":"2021-01-21T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-comedy-about-indian-castes\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:06:16","slug":"a-comedy-about-indian-castes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-comedy-about-indian-castes\/","title":{"rendered":"#A comedy about Indian castes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A comedy about Indian castes<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 125 minutes. Rated R (language, violence and sexual material). On Netflix.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Many memorable movies<\/a> have been made about the struggles of India\u2019s poorest citizens. Oscar winner \u201cSlumdog Millionaire\u201d and \u201cLion,\u201d both starring Dev Patel, chronicled boys\u2019 climbs from small ignored villages to greener pastures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using different styles and stories, both of those films grabbed our hearts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White Tiger,\u201d on the other hand, takes our heart, stomps on it and then maniacally laughs. The acidic satire, based on Aravind Adiga\u2019s novel, gives the well-worn genre a rebel streak, and its wronged main character is more like the scheming family of \u201cParasite\u201d than a doe-eyed kid trying to reckon with his hardscrabble past. <\/p>\n

His name is Balram (Adarsh Gourav), a low-caste young man who lives with his grandmother and brother, and is saddled with a life of predetermined servitude. He explains, through reflective narration, how he escaped his down-and-out destiny to become a wealthy entrepreneur. <\/p>\n

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Adarsh Gourav and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in a scene from \u201cThe White Tiger.\u201d<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shooting for a better gig than cleaning dirty restaurants, Balram learns to drive and is soon hired by Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) \u2014 the wealthy son of a landlord \u2014 and his girlfriend Pinky (Priyanka Chopra).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Suddenly, a guy who has never heard the word \u201ccomputer\u201d leaps from eating outside on the ground to spending his days in a luxury hotel, even though servants still have to sleep in makeshift shelters in the parking garage.\u00a0His shimmering new life gives him the tools to jump ahead \u2014 and I\u2019m not talking r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and references. Balram gets by on good, old-fashioned street smarts and violence.<\/p>\n

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Adarsh Gourav plays Balram, a low-caste young man who lives with his grandmother and brother. Rather than a life of predetermined servitude, he is hired by Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) \u2014 the wealthy son of a landlord \u2014 and his girlfriend Pinky (Priyanka Chopra) as a driver.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clearly, \u201cThe White Tiger\u201d is a much darker film than \u201cLion\u201d or \u201cSlumdog,\u201d which emphasized humanity\u2019s positives. Writer-director Ramin Bahrani\u2019s movie is also, at the core, an eviscerating comedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an ancient and venerated custom of my people to start a story by praying to a higher power,\u201d begins Balram early in the film. \u201cSo I, too, should start off by kissing some god\u2019s foot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Much of the social<\/a> critique is given to Chopra\u2019s character, who was born in India and raised in New York. After Balram, the brassy woman from Queens \u2014 anathema to the chauvinistic local men \u2014 is the most intriguing spoke in the wheel. Arriving in Delhi, Pinky is at first app<\/a>alled by the way servants are treated, but gradually, she becomes a beneficiary of the ugly system. <\/p>\n

But the real find here is Gourav, who gives a pressure-cooker turn as Balram, a guy who can no longer smile and nod at his own oppression. He switches rapidly from sweet to deranged, gullible to Machiavellian, generous to bloodthirsty. This guy\u2019s got more layers than spanakopita. So far, the 26-year-old actor has worked mainly in Indian films and TV shows, but hopefully \u201cWhite Tiger\u201d is the start of seeing a whole lot more of him stateside.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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