‘The White Tiger’ – Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Rajkummar Rao and Adarsh Gourav are great and hope film will ‘open eyes’…

Netflix is positioning for awards but film’s strongest hope is probably newcomer Gourav and some will compare to ‘Slumdog Millionaire’…

11.15pm GMT

🎥 Media screening, supported by the American Film Institute, of ‘The White Tiger’ – adapted from Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize winning novel and post screening recorded Q&A

🎥 Executively produced film by Hollywood and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra and she has significant role, though not a lot of screen time in 131 minute film
🎥 Q&A with Chopra, director Ramin Bahrani, and Bollywood star actor Rajkummar Rao and Indian newcomer Adarsh Gourav and moderated by Indian American comic and show host and actor, Hasan Minhaj
🎥 He describes movie as “powerful, thrilling and exhilarating”
🎥 Chopra hopes world will think a bit more about the have-nots, film charts rise of young man from village to wealthy entrepreneur who meets Chinese Premiere
🎥 Film and main character, ‘Balram’ (Gourav) asserts: ‘It will be the age of the Brown and Yellow Man’ and white people are ‘finished’ (sort of…)
🎥Uncomfortable viewing as Rajkummar Rao says film focuses on the millions in India nobody pays attention to and who are “invisible”
🎥 Bahrani, who is of Iranian origin, and went to same college in US as Adiga, and says he has been waiting 15 years to make and read the novel in draft form pre-publication…

Main picture: Balram (Gourav) and Pinky (Chopra Jonas)

🎥Longer story will appear here soon…