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The White Tiger's Adarsh Gourav says best actor BAFTA nomination feels 'surreal'
• 4 years ago"This is unbelievable. It is surreal... I was at the gym. I just found out about the nomination," Adarsh Gourav, whose previous credits include My Name is Khan and Mom.
BAFTA 2021 nominations: Adarsh Gourav, Riz Ahmed contend for best actor award; see full list
• 4 years agoThe British Film Academy Awards on Tuesday unveiled the nominees, including record nods for female directors and a leading seven nominations for Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland and Sarah Gavron's Rocks.
Curious case of Aravind Adiga as a famous literary recluse: Booker-winning author is anomaly in publishing world
Nawaid Anjum • 4 years agoIn an inversion of the mantra that marketing is a necessary evil, the bane of an author’s existence that ultimately has its reward, Adiga refuses to do too much publicity around his books, often to the chagrin of his publishers.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is a 'different Indian woman who looks nothing like me,' says Jameela Jamil after Twitter user confuses actors
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoA Twitter user recently got confused between Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Jameela Jamil, and inquired if Nick Jonas and Jamil have gotten divorced.
After The White Tiger, Ramin Bahrani to adapt Aravind Adiga's novel Amnesty for Netflix
• 4 years agoSet in Australia, Amnesty follows the story of Danny, an illegal Sri Lankan migrant who cleans houses and realises he has information about the sudden murder of one of his employers.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas shares her lockdown movie essentials, favourite Hindi rap music, and adapting to virtual promotions
• 4 years agoPriyanka Chopra Jonas tracks her recent routine, whilst awaiting the release of her memoir Unfinished and managing virtual promotions for The White Tiger
How The White Tiger breaks down the idea of a selfless servant, a trope romanticised in Indian pop culture
Poulomi Das • 4 years agoTold from the perspective of Balram, a poor, lower-caste Bihari hired as a driver for an abroad-returned couple, The White Tiger is, among other things, also a play on the idea of the selfless servant, a trope popularised by Indian pop-culture, in particular Hindi cinema.
How The White Tiger's hammy voice-over narrative adds to its white gaze conundrum
Aditya Mani Jha • 4 years agoVoice-over (VO) work is not among Bollywood’s strong suites, and even though The White Tiger isn't a Bollywood film per se, it suffers the same problems of clichés as any other Bollywood film when it comes to voiceover narratives.
The White Tiger could have been an authentic social drama, a la Parasite, but ends up as a missed opportunity
Karishmaupadhyay • 4 years agoThe makers of The White Tiger and A Suitable Boy can’t be held guilty for the white gaze, far from it. What these pieces of content lack, however, is not enough of the Indian gaze.
The White Tiger movie review: Pallid, superficial and made with one eye on the Western gaze, the other on the Hindutva mob
Annavetticad • 4 years agoRamin Bahrani's film embraces the book's upper-caste take on caste, but deletes several scathing passages by Aravind Adiga that reveal the hero's disdain for Hinduism.