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It’s also the title of an edge-of-your-seat film adapted from Indian author Aravind Adiga’s 2008 Booker Prize-winning novel. Like the novel, the film is filled with socio-political commentary whose narrative arc bends towards the injustices which set apart the haves and have-nots. Not just in India, although this is where the film is set, but everyplace where a poor person has ever said or thought of saying: “To think of this again makes me so angry, that I might go out and cut the throat of a rich man right now”. Those are the words of protagonist Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav)....