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Welcome to my Shantaram novel and movie site

Shantaram is a novel of epic proportions written by Gregory David Roberts. It tells the story of his break from a Melbourne prison in Australia and escape to New Zealand followed by India where much of the novel is set. In India he lives in the slums of Bombay and opens a medal clinic. After a harrowing experience of getting caught and spending time in an Indian prison he becomes involved with the local mafia.

The novel, however is much greater than a prison break story. It is a novel embelished with all of the human emotional traits: love, hate, friendship, enemies, life and death.

Warner Bros. Pictures bought the movie rights for the novel and are making a movie starring Johnny Depp due to be released in 2007. It will directed by Mira Nair.

Shantaram

Also by Gregory Roberts: Roma

24th August 2006

Chunky Pandey to star in Shantaram 4 replies

Chunky Pandey is to have a role in the upcoming movie starring Johnny Depp. He is going to play the role of a Bollywood actor in the monvie. Chunkey is a star in Bangladesh, and has been quoted as saying, “”I’m sure that if I hadn’t become an actor, I would have become a gangster”.

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16th August 2006

Another movie to be made in India in 2007

Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson coming to India