Mumbai: Actors Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Rajkummar Rao and Adarsh Gourav celebrated Monday the nomination of The White Tiger in the Oscars. The White Tiger has been nominated in the ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ category at the upcoming 93rd edition of Academy Awards. Directed by Ramin Bahrani, the film bagged the nomination along with films like Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, The Father, Nomadland and One Night in Miami. The nominations were announced by Priyanka and her pop star husband Nick Jonas from London.
“We just got nominated for an Oscar! Congratulations Ramin and team #TheWhiteTiger,” Priyanka wrote on Instagram. The actor, also serves as an executive producer on The White Tiger along with Ava DuVernay.
Priyanka, 38, said announcing the nomination herself ‘made it so much more special’. “So so proud,” she added.
Leading man Gourav expressed his happiness after officially becoming part of an Oscar nominated film. “Ramin Bahrani! You are a legend! So proud of the entire team!! Congratulations everyone,” he wrote on Instagram.
The 26-year-old actor also posted a video of the nomination ceremony. In the video he could be heard cheering on when The White Tiger landed a spot in the top five of the category.
Rao also shared the nomination card on Instagram alongside some pictures from the film’s sets. “We are nominated for the #OSCARS. Congratulations #RaminBahrani and team #TheWhiteTiger,”” the 36-year-old actor wrote.
DuVernay, who backed the Netflix movie via her film collective ‘ARRAY’, also congratulated the cast and crew. “Magnificent work by Ramin Bahrani, Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot. Please enjoy these gems if you haven’t already,” she wrote on Instagram.
The director-producer also gave a shout-out to another ARRAY project, A Concerto is a Conversation. It has been nominated for an Oscar in the best documentary short subject category. “Two films made with love. Much respect to the directors, casts, and crews of both beauties,” DuVernay added.
The Oscar nod for The White Tiger comes five days after the team scored two BAFTA nominations. While Bahrani received a BAFTA nod in the adapted screenplay category, Gourav landed the leading actor nomination for his performance.
Based on Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winning novel of the same name, The White Tiger follows Balram’s (Gourav) rise from a poor villager to a successful entrepreneur in India. It showcases how hunger and lack of opportunity can build and drive a human being’s animal instinct of survival.
