The White Tiger: Gripping new Netflix film earns its stripes 

Based on the Booker-winning novel, The White Tiger may be set in India but its tale of inequality and struggle has universal appeal, and is already getting rave reviews 
The White Tiger: Gripping new Netflix film earns its stripes 

The White Tiger: Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra, and Adarsh Gourav in the film now available on Netflix.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas admits her new film, The White Tiger, will make viewers feel uncomfortable. But it’s also the reason why she felt the story – set in India and about the rise of a poor villager named Balram, who becomes a successful entrepreneur in modern India – was one that needed to be told.

As the 38-year-old suggests, “we have become so desensitised to the life that a huge population of the world (is living); without any options, without any choices”.

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