For years, the smart money was on Shantaram never making it to the screen. Almost two decades after it became a publishing sensation, selling millions of copies worldwide, multiple attempts were made to commit the show to screen. They never succeeded - until now.
That’s right, AppleTV+’s latest project is about to land on our screens, and for such a long-awaited occasion, there’s surprisingly little buzz around it. The original material was written by Gregory David Roberts, a criminal who fled prison for a life in Bombay in the Eighties. The resulting book (which he maintains is fictional) was influenced by his life and attracted a fair amount of opprobium on how accurate the facts within it really were.
