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Author’s Site Gregory David Roberts
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Welcome to my Shantaram novel and movie site
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.
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31st January 2007
Amitabh Bachchan to co star with Depp in Shantaram 2 replies
Amitabh Bachchan will star with Johnny Depp in the movie version of Shantaram. Bachchan has won a number of awards for the Indian movies he has appeared in. This will be his first international movie.
19th January 2007
Mira Nair to direct Shantaram movie
Mira Nair has been given the job to direct Johnny Depp in the movie release of Shantaram.
Mira Nair was born in India and currently based in New York. Some of her previous films include Mississippi Masala which starred Denzel Washington and The NameSake.
“It is a novel that completely grip me, as it did millions of others and it is a best selling novel but also Johnny Depp is such an extraordinary human being and great actor and he embodies so much what Shantaram is so when he asked me to direct him it was just a great honour,” said Mira Nair.
“Mira knows this book backwards, she has read it and discussed with great many people and she has a passion for this project which will bring something so exciting to it. And also she knows city of Bombay so well,” said author Gregory David.