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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