The White Tiger review: Gripping critique of caste system is a roaring success
Balram (Adarsh Gourav) becomes a driver for a wealthy couple in The White Tiger His elder son, ‘the Mongoose’ (Vijay Maurya) is even worse, but Balram sees promise in The Stork’s other son Ashok (Rajkummar Rao), a handsome, ambitious young man who’s just returned from America with a beautiful, sophisticated wife, Pinky (Priyanka Chopra), and big ideas about the open market and democracy. About these notions, the wily Balram is sceptical. “If I were in charge of India,” he tells us at one point, “I’d fix the sewage pipes first, then the democracy.” Elsewhere, he points out th...