Synopsis
An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.
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Cast
- Adarsh GouravBalram Halwai
- Rajkummar RaoAshok
- Priyanka Chopra JonasPinky Madam
- Mahesh ManjrekarThe Stork
- Vijay MauryaMukesh 'The Mongoose'
- Kamlesh GillGranny Kusum
- Swaroop SampatThe Great Socialist
- Tawhid Rike ZamanBalram's friend
- Vedant SinhaDharam
- Nalneesh NeelVitiligo
- 85
TheWrap
The White Tiger illustrates the extremes to which the poor are driven to violate the rigid class structure of India, with the implication that our hero and his methodology is perhaps the face of post-superpower capitalism itself. - 80
The Guardian
An absorbing tale of feline ambition. - 80
The Telegraph
It’s a punchy, propulsive watch, blown along by snappy editing and a hip-hop-driven soundtrack that stresses that there’s still much fun to be had when hefty themes of inequality and geopolitics are being tackled. And honestly? There really is. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
An immersive plunge into the chasm separating the servant class from the rich in contemporary India, the drama observes corruption at the highest and lowest levels with its tale of innocence lost and tables turned. If there's simply too much novelistic incident stuffed into the overlong film's Dickensian sprawl, the three leads' magnetic performances and the surprising twists of the story keep you engrossed. - 80
Screen Daily
A film of a bumpy, brilliant debut novel which was ground-breaking at the time, Bahrami’s propulsive piece dazzles, and quibbles are easily quelled, even over 124 minutes. - 75
IndieWire
It’s flecked with murderous black humor, told with all the subtlety of getting run over by a car, and generally sees Indian society as a giant rooster coop where servants either kill their masters or spend their entire lives waiting in line to get their heads chopped off. - 75
RogerEbert.com
Scene by scene, The White Tiger punctures the fantasy that a rich man could also be a nice man, and although the comedy here is pitch-black, it strums with a particularly focused anger. - 75
Slant Magazine
Ramin Bahrani’s film is a turbulent and snarkily self-aware melodrama about breathless social climbing.