First-generation Iranian American Ramin Bahrani writes and directs this cinema adaptation of Indian author Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel, (also a New York Times Bestseller) - which basically analyses and underlines the struggle of the global underclass.

Adiga’s “The White Tiger” is a sort of grittier, far more realistic ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ meets ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ where the have-not, sparked by injustice, reaches out for success. This telling of it opens with protagonist Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav as the adult version and Harshit Mahawar as the child) narrating his life story as part of a letter to a Chinese Premier, who is visiting India. It’s a story-telling device that inter-mingles geo-politics with personal success while crisscrossing from 2000 to 2010.