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Shantaram is a future film based on the bestselling novel
of the same name written by Gregory David Roberts.
Premise
Partially based on the author's own life, Shantaram
movie is an uncompromising story of a fugitive escaped
from an Australian prison on the run in Bombay India; a man
who sets up a clinic in a third world slum, works for the
biggest Don in the Bombay Mafia, heads straight into Russian
guns in the hills of Afghanistan, and earns the name insightfully
given him by his best friend's mother - Shantaram
– Man of Peace.
Other details
Russel Crowe was keen to play the lead in the film but Johnny
Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil, Warner Bros. and
Brad Pitt's production company Plan B had already purchased
the rights to the book for a whopping $2 million as a starring
vehicle for Depp.
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