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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.
Also by Gregory Roberts: Roma
23rd February 2009
Shantaram could be the next slumdog millionaire 13 replies
Slumdog Millionaire, the movie that has surprised everyone around the world with its international success has won eight Oscars.
Slumdog Millionaire has certainly created a benchmark for movies set in India. I wonder if producers of Shantaram are now thinking whether their movie will enjoy a similar success. There is no doubt if Shantaram is produced any time soon or the near future, it will be compared to Slumdog Millionaire.