‘The White Tiger’ actor Adarsh Gourav calls BAFTA nomination ‘overwhelming’

Actor Adarsh Gourav, who has been received the leading actor BAFTA nomination for his role in the Netflix movie “The White Tiger”, has said that the success of the film “feels like reading a chapter from a book.” He also called the BAFTA nomination “overwhelming.” 

Directed by filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, “The White Tiger“, which is based on Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name, chronicles the extraordinary journey of a driver named Balram (Gourav). It movie also features actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Rajkummar Rao.

Gourav said that even though the team was confident about their work on “The White Tiger”, the fact that Bahrani didn’t allow them to see the playback was a new and unique experience.

“General sentiment was that all of us were pretty confident about the movie but you never know how it is going to turn out finally. So much depends on other things. We weren’t allowed to see playback so I had no idea how I had done.” 

The 26-year-old actor believes that every director has their own way of telling stories and what Bahrani brought out of him as a performer was “overwheliming and suprising”.

“It really depends on the director you are working with and in Ramin’s case, he did not want us to see the playback so everything that happened has been surprising and overwhelming for me. The BAFTA nomination is really overwhelming. It feels like I’m reading a chapter from a book,” he said. 

Gourav said previously appeared in Hindi movies like “My Name is Khan” and “Mom”.