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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Mahesh Pillai
Mahesh Pillai appears in The White Tiger, the film adaptation of the book by Aravind Adiga The White Tiger, first published in 2008.
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The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga, 2008
movie vs book
Ramin Bahrani, 2021
Entrepreneur Balram Halwai emails Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, requesting a meeting, and relating his life story. He states his belief that the Indian underclass is trapped in a perpetual state of servitude, like chickens in a chicken coop. However when his father is unable to pay off The Stork, the village landlord, Balram’s grandmother forces him to work in the village’s tea stall, and he never returns to school.