This kid is incredible.
He’s so immediately charming and empathetic."
As Balram, he needs to be.
Credit: Netflix
Claiming one’s own destiny can be dirty work, but he’s a tiger, not a butterfly.
His cool paid off, earning him what could be the role of a lifetime.
“I just wanted to see to it that I made 100 percent use of this opportunity.”
Illustration by Fahmida Azim for EW
A working actor since he was a teenager, Gourav has had a passion for storytelling much longer.
As a child, I was sort of a compulsive liar, he admits with a laugh.
That process of discovery began long before shooting did.
The idea was to do something that I absolutely hated.
And I hated every second!"
“That’s the feeling that I wanted to attain, the feeling of being invisible to people.”
“It’s a difficult journey, because [Balram] does something very immoral.
And we’re asked not to agree, but to empathize with what he does,” Bahrani says.
“[Adarsh] pulls us on that journey.”
It’s a trip well worth taking.
The White Tigerlands in select theaters Friday and hits Netflix Jan. 22.
Check out the latest trailer above.
