The White Tiger will soon be burning bright on TV screens.
Priyanka Chopra will star in an upcoming Netflix film adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Her co-star will be National Film Award-winning Indian actor Rajkummar Rao, and the film will be written and directed by Ramin Bahrani, who previously directed the 2018 HBO film version of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic Fahrenheit 451. Bahrani is also an executive producer of the upcoming USA spy-thriller TV series Treadstone, based loosely on Robert Ludlum’s Bourne novels and premiering on Oct.15.
White Tiger, according to Kirkus’ 2008 review, tells a “fiercely satirical” tale of a young, ambitious entrepreneur in Bangalore, India, named Balram Halwai, who’s driven to corruption and murder. Kirkus’ review of the book was mixed, calling it an “undisciplined debut, but one with plenty of vitality.”
Chopra, who recently starred in the ABC espionage series Quantico, isn’t the only member of her family who’s starring in a book adaptation. Her cousin, Parineeti Chopra, began filming a Hindi-language version of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling 2015 thriller The Girl on the Train last month, and her husband, Nick Jonas, has two films based on books on the way: Jumanji: The Next Level, the latest in a series of films very loosely inspired by Chris Van Allsburg’s 1981 children’s book Jumanji, which premieres on Dec. 13; and Chaos Walking, based on Patrick Ness’ YA sci-fi novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, due to be released next year.
David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.
