The Netflix adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s 2008 best-seller roars into the Oscar race in December.
“I thought it was amazing.
I always wanted to make a film of it.

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I’m grateful he trusted me to do it.”
Bahrani wasn’t the book’s only longtime fan.
“She comes in with this completely different perspective of life as it is in a developing country.

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“In my work in the U.S., I haven’t done a dramatic part like that.
So that was very exciting to me.”

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