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The White Tiger (2021)
Where The White Tiger says it takes place, and where it was really shot.
A Delhi golf-estate tower plays the master's home, while the village and the Bangalore ending have no named filming location
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Scenes and places
The Bangalore office, where the story is told from (2010)
Balram emails Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to ask for a meeting and begins to tell his life story. He argues that India's underclass is trapped like chickens in a coop.
Set in Bangalore — Balram, now an entrepreneur, writes to the Chinese premier from Bangalore and tells his life story. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The city Balram calls the Silicon Valley of India.
The village of Laxmangarh
As a boy Balram is told he is a white tiger and offered a scholarship to a school in Delhi. His father cannot pay the landlord, so his grandmother sends him to work in the tea stall.
Set in Laxmangarh (village) — Balram's home village, where the landlord known as the Stork rules and Balram is told he is a white tiger.
A village in what Balram calls the India of darkness.
The tower where Ashok and Pinky live
Balram follows Ashok and Pinky to Delhi as their driver. They treat him with more respect than the rest of the family, but still see him as a servant.
Set in Delhi — The apartment tower in Delhi where Ashok and Pinky live and Balram works as their driver. Google Maps · Apple Maps
The film's Delhi tower is a real tower in a Gurugram golf estate.
Filmed at M3M Golf Estate, Gurugram — St Andrews Tower, home of Ashok in the film. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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The car park where Balram sleeps
Balram lives in the underground car park beneath the tower where his masters live. The low camera angles make him look small against it.
Set in Underground car park, Delhi — The basement car park of the tower, where Balram lives. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Basement space under the same Gurugram tower.
Filmed at M3M Golf Estate, Gurugram — The underground car park used for Balram's quarters. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Pinky's birthday night drive
On Pinky's birthday, she and Ashok are drunk and make Balram let Pinky drive. An accident follows, and the family pushes Balram to take the blame.
Set in Delhi streets — The night roads of Delhi, where Pinky takes the wheel on her birthday. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Delhi is the film's main shooting location.
Filmed at Delhi (exact streets not named in sources) — The film was shot mostly in Delhi; the sources do not name the streets. Google Maps · Apple Maps
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Filmed at M3M St Andrews canopy, Gurugram — The grand canopy of the tower, a setting in Balram's turning point. Google Maps · Apple Maps
Characters
- Balram — A village tea-stall boy who becomes a chauffeur in Delhi and tells his life story by email.
- Ashok — The Stork's son, back from the United States, whose driver Balram becomes.
- Pinky — Ashok's wife, raised in Jackson Heights, New York.
Questions answered on the map
- Where is the Delhi tower from The White Tiger really?