In Bombay (Mumbai, today), Lin befriends hustling tour guide Prabhu (Shubham Saraf) and becomes acquainted with a quirky local bar populated by various expats, some looking for wealth, some for enlightenment and all just hoping to blend into the melting pot of 1982 Bombay. Facing accusations of being a snitch - he’s not, because although Dale may be a criminal, he’s profoundly honorable - Dale escapes from prison, secures a new passport and the name “Lindsay Ford” and heads to India. Our hero begins life as Dale Conti (Charlie Hunnam), an Australian philosophy student and paramedic who winds up in jail after a detour into drugs and armed robbery. Shantaram is so packed with characters and storylines that almost everybody will find two or three threads that entertain them, even if there are at least as many that feel rushed or over-extended in the first season of a drama that surely never fully conquers the challenges of a complicated adaptation. Like Roberts’ book, though, Shantaram is maybe five percent fictionalized memoir and the rest a pastiche of every muscular novel of character-driven transformation ever written, from Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo to James Clavell. Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Fayssal Bazzi, Antonia Desplat, Elektra Kilbey, Shubham SarafĬreators: Steve Lightfoot, Eric Warren Singer from the novel by Gregory David Roberts
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