This presentation has tried to look Simulacra and Simulation with the use of three different sources. Here in this presentation, I have compared one book, one movie, and one Real-life character; The White Tiger, Namo, and The Slumdog millionaire. To see the comparison among Jamal, Modi, and Balram watch till the end.

2. Prepared by : KAVITABA P. GOHIL
Roll No : 19
Paper : THE NEW LITERATURE
M.A (English) : Sem -4
Enrollment No : 2069108420180018
Batch : 2017-19
Email : kavitabaprahaladsinhjigohil@gmail.com
Submitted to : Smt .S. B Gardi, Department of English,
MK Bhavnagar University

3. Comparison among The White
Tiger, Namo and The Slumdog
millionaire

4. Content
• Key facts
• Comparison Between Book and movie
• Comparison among the characters Balram, Namo and
Jamal
-Childhood & chai
-First impression
-Love, Marriage & family
-Driving Force
-Murder
- Mass Impression
• conclusion

5. •Author: Aravind Adiga
•Type of work: Novel
•Genre: Epistolary novel, Dark
comedy, Satire
•Language: Indian English
•Date of first Publication: April 22,
2008
•Publisher: Harper Collins India,
2008
•Narrator: Balram Halwai
•Technique: Flashback
•Type of work: Movie
•Genre: British Drama Film
•Directed by: Danny Boyle
•Produced by: Christian Colson
•Screenplay by: Simon Beaufo
•Release date: 30 August 2008 (Telluride
Film Festival), 9 January 2009 (United
Kingdom),16 January 2009 (India)
•Language: English & Hindi
•Protagonist: Jamal Malik
•Technique: Flashback
The White Tiger The Slumdog millionaire
Key Facts

6. Comparison Between Book and movie
Narrative structure
1]Flashback Technique
2] Poster: “General public is hereby informed that the man in the
picture (a faded picture of the protagonist is also attached) Namely Balram
Halwai alias Munna Son of Vikram Halwai rickshaw- puller is wanted for
questioning. Age: between 25 and 35. Complexion: blackish. Face: Local,
Height: Five feet four inches estimated. Build: Thin, small.”/ Interviews/
Interrogation.
 Indianness
-Cast
-India of light and Dark
-Education
-Economical condition
-Corruption
-Slum/ poverty etc…

7. Narendra Modi
Childhood & Chai
Jamal MalikBalram Halwai
Comparison among the characters Balram, Namo
and Jamal.

8. First Impression
• BALRAM : White Tiger
• MODI: Clever child/ Debate Expert
• JAMAL: Clever/ Intelligent

9. Love, Marriage & Family

10. Driving Force
• Balram : FREEDOM
• Modi : Nationalism / Power
• Jamal : love / Latika

11. Murder

12. Mass Impression
• BALRAM: “self-made entrepreneur”/ Half Baked
Indian.
• MODI: Great PM in the History/ Shashi Tharoor-
'floccinaucinihilipilification' -"the action or habit of
estimating something as worthless".
• JAMAL: “Slumdog” who became millionaire

13. Conclusion
• Journey from “Rag to Riches”.
• Historical Sense…
• So what you understand from the lenses and
senses of history and literature?