'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. 'A gigantic, jaw-dropping, grittily authentic saga' Daily Mail
it has the grit and pace of a thriller' Daily Telegraph
at once erudite and intimate, reflective and funny. Roberts retired from public life in 2014 to devote time to his family and new writing projects.Ī novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld It has been translated into 44 languages, sold in over 116 countries and been adapted into an Apple TV series. He's best known for his bestselling novel Shantaram, which has sold over 7 million copies and was hailed as a masterpiece by critics. 'Shantaram', which hasn't generated the level of buzz that some of Apple TV+'s popular titles have, follows Lin Ford (Hunnam), who escapes a maximum-security Australian prison, reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of 1980s Bombay, gets entangled with a local mafia boss and eventually uses his gun-running and counterfeiting skills to fight against the invading Russian troops in Afghanistan.Gregory David Roberts is an author, songwriter, composer and artist. Because of its expansive nature requiring filming in multiple countries, the series did not resume production on the remaining 10 episodes until May 2021. The series had shot two episodes before pausing filming in late-February 2020. Its Season 1 finale, released tomorrow, December 16, will serve as a series finale, reports 'Variety'.īased on the Gregory David Roberts' epic, 900-plus-page novel, Shantaram was an ambitious, big-scope undertaking, shot across two continents, which was impacted by the pandemic. LOS ANGELES: Actor Charlie Hunnam-starrer series 'Shantaram' will not be returning for a second season.
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