WHEELY BAD JOB Adarsh Gourav (front) stars as Balram, the driver and lowly servant of Pinky (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) and Ashok (Rajkummar Rao).
Ramin Bahrani’s adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Bookerwinning bestseller The White Tiger has been a long time coming. In fact, his name was all over it from the beginning. “Aravind is one of my closest friends,” smiles 99 Homes director Bahrani, whom the book is dedicated to. “The first time I read an early draft of The White Tiger I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ It’s almost 15 years I’ve been waiting to make this film.”