{"id":26607,"date":"2021-01-22T02:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T18:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/?p=26607"},"modified":"2021-02-27T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:06:12","slug":"the-white-tiger-a-dark-and-grim-rags-to-riches-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.teampcheng.com\/blog\/entertainment\/movies-entertainment\/movie-review-movies\/the-white-tiger-a-dark-and-grim-rags-to-riches-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Tiger: A Dark and Grim Rags-to-Riches Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Aravind Adiga it tells the story of Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), a poor villager who as a child displayed great potential and earned a scholarship to study in the city but this was thwarted by the sudden death of his father. Balram is then doomed to work at the village tea shop, destined to a life of working a lowly job, probably to be married off to a girl from their village and have children they can\u2019t send to school or feed and live in the rest of the family in one dilapidated shanty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rooster Coop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Balram has this theory that people in India are like chickens in a rooster coop, they see the other chickens being be-headed and chopped into pieces but they don\u2019t do anything about it. They know that they\u2019re next but they don\u2019t try to escape. People in India are satisfied to be trapped in their own castes even if that means being a slave their entire lives.
But Balram is unlike most of his countrymen, he schemes to escape his pre-destined life and aims to become the driver of their landowner\u2019s youngest son, Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) who has just come back from America with his wife Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a driver to more lenient and Americanized masters, Balram becomes torn with what society trained him-to become a faithful servant to his masters-forever, this becomes especially difficult when Ashok and Pinky show him kindness and an interest in him as a person, something that is not common in India. Conflicted as to whether to love or hate his masters, a night of betrayal teaches Balram the great and corrupt lengths the rich will go through to save themselves, even if it means sacrificing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Escaping the Coop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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