Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger journey began four years before the acclaimed 2008 novel hit stores. Author Aravind Adiga slipped early chapters to the filmmaker, his former classmate at Columbia University, and he was immediately hooked. "It was so alive and so funny," recalls Bahrani.
More than a decade later, Adiga asked Bahrani to adapt his novel, and that script has now earned Bahrani an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay.
Adiga told the filmmaker to change whatever he wanted to in the story — about a poor young man from an Indian village who becomes a driver for a wealthy family in Delhi, a job that has life and death consequences.
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