BAZ BAMIGBOYE: The star who earned his stripes the hard way
Adarsh Gourav is electrifying in the screen adaptation of Aravind Adiga's bestseller The White Tiger — and he certainly suffered for his art. Gourav plays Balram, an underdog, born to serve India's idle rich, who clambers up a greasy, murderous pole. But when he went undercover in a village, to see what Balram's early years might have been like, he contracted food poisoning. Very different, he said, from his own upbringing with bankers for parents. As we chatted on Zoom — Gourav from his apartment in Mumbai — he still looked very thin. Adarsh Gourav is electrifying in the screen adapt...
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