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The 25-year friendship between director Ramin Bahrani and author Aravind Adiga proved fruitful when the The White Tiger landed an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. The Netflix thriller, written by Bahrani and based off Adiga’s 2008 novel, follows a poor man’s rise through the ranks of India’s caste system…

Judas and the Black Messiah co-star Dominique Fishback is set as a lead alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Apple TV+’s limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. The White Tiger writer-director-producer Ramin Bahrani has signed on to direct and executive produce the six-episode series based on the acclaimed novel by…

There is something that seems to link all of Ramin Bahrani’s movies, an urgent sense of social justice being one. The director of the current Netflix film The White Tiger joins me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind The Lens, where we talk about all the things that inspire him as a filmmaker…

Editors note: Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel The White Tiger, which his old Columbia University classmate Ramin Bahrani turned into the movie that has been generating awards buzz since its Netflix release in January. Adiga penned a guest column for Deadline about how the pair became…

Ramin Bahrani is set to adapt, direct and produce the film adaptation of the novel Amnesty for Netflix.  The film is based on the novel by White Tiger author Aravind Adiga and will also be produced by Ashok Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment. Bahrani’s partner Bahareh Azimi will also produce through their Noruz…

EXCLUSIVE: For nearly 15 years, director Ramin Bahrani and novelist Aravind Adiga shared a symbiotic relationship of inspiration that culminated into Netflix’s rags-to-riches drama The White Tiger. Bahrani’s 2005 feature Man Push Cart inspired Adiga, a former Columbia University classmate, to write The White Tiger, a…

Ramin Bahrani's Netflix thriller The White Tiger is a kinetic and thought-provoking ride. The acclaimed director's adaptation of Arvind Adiga's lauded 2008 novel charts the tumultuous journey of a poor Indian driver who must use his wit and cunning to break free from servitude. The project was in many ways a personal…

Ramin Bahrani’s filmography is one strongly driven by stories about people struggling to stay above water, maybe characters you pass on the street but never think much about. From his early films including Man Push Cart and Chop Chop to larger-canvas productions like At Any Price and the stunning 99 Homes, social…

EXCLUSIVE: Here is the first trailer for the Ramin Bahrani-directed adaptation of The White Tiger, an adaptation of the Aravind Adiga novel that won the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Netflix will release the film theatrically in December and make an awards push as it releases globally in January. His early efforts Man Push…

EXCLUSIVE: Magic Lantern is billed as a story of love, obsession and cinema and is the first LA-shot movie from influential Iranian filmmaker Amir Naderi. The official Venice Film Festival screening is tomorrow here on the Lido where Naderi won the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award in 2016. It’s running in…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set the Man Booker Prize-winning Aravind Adiga novel The White Tiger as a feature film. The novel is being adapted by Ramin Bahrani, who intends to make it his next directorial outing. Bahrani most recently directed 99 Homes, and he recently wrapped an adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenh…

Director Ramin Bahrani rejected TV critics’ efforts to describe his adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian ’50s novel Fahrenheit 451 as a condemnation of President Donald Trump. Blame Google, blame Facebook, blame your smartphone – we’re all culpable, he insisted. “I don’t want to focus so much on him,” Bahrani said…