Trailer: Ambition and betrayal are on tap in ‘The White Tiger’
Netflix has released the trailer for The White Tiger, a rags to riches story of ambition, glory and fate.
Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) narrates his epic and darkly humorous rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. Cunning and ambitious, our young hero jockeys his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America. Society has trained Balram to be one thing — a servant — so he makes himself indispensable to his rich masters. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master.
Based on the New York Times bestseller and 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger is written for the screen and directed by Ramin Bahrani and arrives on Netflix January 22. Here is the trailer.

Image courtesy of Tejinder Singh / Netflix
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