Cinematic Reconstruction of Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger: An Extensive Critique of Adaptation

Abstract

With the revolution of media culture, adapting bestsellers and masterpieces has become popular. Instead of reading a text carefully, people prefer to watch the content being visualized. Visual representation of a fact or situation significantly and effectively affects the audience’s thoughts and emotions. When a reader sees the same writing as a movie on the screen, the analysis stands out more. Similar to how a reader analyses a text critically, a viewer’s mind is also stimulated by a film. Herein lie the obstacles and difficulties that filmmakers and directors must overcome to adapt and produce a movie from an original text. There are various theoretical approaches and methods to make a movie based on any text maintaining similarity in storyline, reliability, and with a mix of entertainment. The paper aims to examine the rationale behind the experimental cinematography with all these theoretical frameworks of adaptation of a trendy Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel of Arvind Adiga, The White Tiger .