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    What Indians Who've Known Poverty Think Of Netflix's 'The White Tiger' Movie

    The movie, based on an award-winning novel, traces the unlikely journey of a poor villager in search of wealth. Does it ring true to those who know what it's like to be poor in India?
    by Kamala Thiagarajan Jan 29, 2021 5 minutes
    Source: Netflix

    "Do we loathe our masters behind a façade of love, or do we love them behind a façade of loathing?"

    This is just one of the questions that Balram Halwai, a poor, village-bred Indian boy and the central character of the movie The White Tiger, asks himself as he works as a chauffeur to a rich businessman in Delhi.

    The movie, newly released on Netflix, is an adaptation of the Booker Prize- winning debut novel of the same name by Indian author Aravind Adiga. Produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and directed by Ramin Bahrani, the film offers a grim tale of corruption and betrayal, examining the complex dynamics of the employer-servant relationships in India while delving into the country's stark rich-poor divide and its class and caste issues.

    A predominant image in the movie is the rooster coop — a metaphor for the oppression of India's poor:

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