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"The White Tiger" nominated in Oscars 2021, Not something to be proud of.

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  Recently, I came to know that a movie named "THE WHITE TIGER" has been nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category in Oscars 2021 .   This movie is an adaptation of the fiction novel   by Aravind Adiga  released in 2008. Moreover also came to know that it is a mega-blockbuster on Netflix and is being critically acclaimed in the International market. Now this made me inquisitive and I switched on to Netflix to know about it. The depiction of the movie is decade-old citing the real India of 2007 which revolves around the class system, slavery, poverty, religious discrimination to name a few. Now my point is that today in the 21st century when we are embarking towards New India which has concepts of Make In India, Aatmanirbhar Bharat and empowering the poor of the poorest, what is the need to depict India on the matters that might be prevalent in some cases but not fully. At the beginning of the movie, the protagonist projects India as 2 countries in one: "An In