După Bard of Blood al lui Shah Rukh Khan, Netflix pregăteşte un nou proiect original indian, mai precis adaptarea volumului semnat de Aravind Adiga, Tigrul Alb. Fără prea multe informaţii comunicate de către reprezentanţii platformei de streaming, proiectul pare a fi produs local, manuscrisul urmând să fie adaptat pentru micul ecran de către Ramin Bahrani, acestuia alăturându-i-se ca producători executivi Mukul Deora, Prem Akkaraju şi Ken Kamins.
Premiat cu Booker Prize, Adiga prezintă în romanul său de debut ascesiunea unui şofer din Bengaluru, un bărbat simplu din casta cea mai de jos a societăţii care printr-o serie de infracţiuni, violenţe şi corupţie, ajunge treptat să fie un important om de afaceri. Ieşirea sa din sărăcie este legată de asemenea şi de vizita ministrului de finanţe chinez care pregăteşte o vizită în India pentru a învăţa ABCul democraţiei.
Pentru moment nu există niciun actor ataşat proiectului şi nu s-a comunicat o dată pentru lansare. Romanul lui Aravind Adiga a fost tradus şi în limba română, Tigrul alb fiind disponibil via editura RAO.
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–Ramin Bahrani despre colaborarea cu Netflix pentru adaptarea The White Tiger:
“The author has been a close friend since college, and he wrote parts of the book in my apartment. One man’s personal story encompasses the entire scope of the country, and it is done with biting humor. I’m not giving anything away because it is revealed early, but the chauffeur kills his master and steals all his money. But he is charming in the way that Alex was in A Clockwork Orange. Or in Goodfellas, where you knew that Joe Pesci’s character was a sociopath, but you could relate to Ray Liotta’s character, a seemingly nice person who goes down the wrong path. It is also similar to the characters in 99 Homes in that the only way for Andrew Garfield’s character to come back up was corruption, and the only way Michael Shannon’s character could succeed was to be corrupt. The concept of rich and poor is so global, all over the world, and the U.S. isn’t immune to it. People here are feeling the same thing, it led to the rise of Bernie Sanders and a lot of people voted for Donald Trump because they saw him as the outsider who would change things. Clearly, he is not doing that, but people believed the concept at the time.”
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