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	Shantaram - Johnny Depp
		Shantaram author Greg Roberts has just put the finishing touches to his script for the film, and tells The Back Room none of it is set in Melbourne -- where Roberts was brought up before drifting into a life of heroin addiction and crime.
		As the flap of his 936-page book reveals, Shantaram, the novel, is based on the experiences of the author, who in 1978 committed a series of robberies while addicted to heroin.
		Shantaram is a novel based on the life of the author, Gregory David Roberts.
	www.ohjohnny.net /shantaram/shantaram.html (2632 words)

	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Shantaram's later, post-independence, outputs especially with Jhanak Jhanak Paayal Baaje, or Geet Gaaya Pathharon Ne, where he launched his daughter Raj Shree, were a decline from the earlier halcyon days which was also simultaneous with the declination of the popular culture into a lumpenised mass culture.
		Shantaram was the only, and I needs must emphasise the word only here, film maker who continued to direct films, for seventy years, which must be an unprecedented record for a director anywhere in the world.
		Shantaram is undoubtedly one of the greatest filmakers we have produced in this country, and even more than his films, the image, and the legend of the man has come to serve purposes which have almost always been good for the Indian industry.
	www.3to6.com /final_retro/lv.shantaram6.htm (705 words)

	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rajaram Vankudre, better known as V Shantaram, was born in the princely state of Kolhapur in present day Maharashtra.
		As a teenager he worked on the railways, which after their initial spurt in the 1850s were undergoing the second major phase of expansion in the wake of the world war.
		Shantaram's first initiation into cinema was through the Kolhapur film company of Babu Rao painter, one of the three great pioneers of Indian cinema.
	www.3to6.com /final_retro/lv.shantaram.htm (568 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: Classics Revisited:
		Alert enough to grapple with a prisoner wanting to kill him, the jailor is also pointedly compassionate enough to reach for a bell and not a stick as a means to overpower his assailant.
		Shantaram also handles the gradual awakening of the prisoner's soul with their lapses into their habitual 'sinning', making it all the more believable.
		Shantaram imparts a suitable aura of gravity to his character.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2002/sep/23dinesh.htm (784 words)

	'Shantaram' tour offers a novel look at Mumbai - Boston.com
		Roberts is writing a sequel to "Shantaram" and an anthology of short stories, and he has also worked on the movie's screenplay.
		Filming of "Shantaram" begins shortly, with Depp in the lead, and the movie, when released in 2007, will bring more tourists flocking to Mumbai and Leopold, Roberts said at a recent discussion in Mumbai.
		Those numbers are expected to rise by nearly 10 percent annually, and 'Shantaram' may be credited with at least some of the interest, similar to that seen in New Zealand after the "Lord of the Rings" films and in Rome after "The Da Vinci Code" book.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/03/08/shantaram_tour_offers_a_novel_look_at_mumbai?mode=PF (852 words)

	Screen The Business Of Entertainment-Regional-V.Shantaram Award
		V Shantaram Awards was instituted by the V Shantaram Foundation in the year 1993.
		The V Shantaram Awards were instituted to appreciate and encourage film directors, producers and the artistes performing in a film, who showcase exceptional talent and virtuosity in the portrayal of a particular role in a particular film thus making a valuable contribution to Indian cinema.
		Rajkamal Digital and V Shantaram Foundation or any of their associate companies with or without any collaboration with another company and/or sponsor in part or whole as the case may be, shall be called the organiser of the V Shantaram Awards.
	www.screenindia.com /20011116/rvshantaram.html (950 words)

	Johnny Depp, Shantaram, and me!
		Shantaram dealt with the theme of exile, and book three -- titled The Dark Side of the Mountain — will deal with moving from darkness to light.
		Another lover of the character and book Shantaram would really like to appreciate what Robert is doing for the slums of Mumbai.
		Shantaram has indeed been a good read, more so over an eye opener for me as an Indian, to see how our people live a...
	www.rediff.com /movies/2006/mar/08shantaram.htm (1214 words)

	V.Shantaram
		He was one of the early filmmakers to realize the efficacy of the film medium as an instrument of social change and used it successfully to advocate humanism on one hand and expose bigotry and injustice on the other.
		Kunku/ Duniya na Mane (1937) was the story of a young woman refusing to accept her marriage to a much older man. Shantaram pares down his narrative to bare essentials and keeps his treatment starkly realistic.
		Shantaram's characteristic neo-expressionist imagery is much in evidence in the film and the film is the closest Shantaram came to matching his famous trilogy at Prabhat.
	www.upperstall.com /people/shantaram.html (1018 words)

	Welcome to Shantaram Enterprises!
		Use this website to learn about Shantaram the Magician, his talents, and the services he has to offer.
		Congratulations to Shantaram the Magician and his purchase of Hutchins Grocery, escrow to close on January 1st 2007.
		Thanks for everyone's support, watch as Shantaram Enterprises prospers with another addition to the enterprise, that of Hutchins Grocery!
	www.shantaramenterprises.com (125 words)

	The Hindu : A navrang of Shantaram's films
		Technique played a big part in Shantaram's films and he was one of the earliest filmmakers to realise the potential of the medium as an instrument of social comment.
		Rajaram Vankurde Shantaram was born in Kolhapur in 1901.
		Shantaram did away with non-essentials, including background music, and showed great economy in the narrative.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2002/05/02/stories/2002050200380100.htm (945 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shantaram: Books: Gregory David Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lin also has guts, and Shantaram is quite a testament to what lengths humans will go to simply to survive.
		Shantaram is, without question, the most wonderfully written book i have ever read.
		At the heart of Shantaram is a decent story that could have made a great novel if only a brave editor had the cojones to stand up to the (admittedly hard-as-nails) author and cut out all the dross.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shantaram-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0316727253 (1412 words)

	Book Reviews - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
		Shantaram is the fictionalized account of the real life adventures of author Gregory David Roberts.
		More than just an account of drugs and crime, Shantaram is the story of a man who, even in a life of violence, genuinely loves those in his life and the city that became his home, Bombay.
		Shantaram has received positive reviews with The Telegraph saying, "Shantaram is an exuberant, swashbuckling story of derring-do, told with reckless gusto and obvious affection, and if Roberts is no sort of stylist (and he isn't), you'd have to be a snob not to admit to enjoying yourself."
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /shantaram (248 words)

	Shantaram: 21st Century Books
		This is a novel that I rank with Shogun, as a masterpiece delving into a fascinating culture in a way not previously accomplished.
		Shantaram is a blockbuster first novel by Gregory David Roberts.
		Roberts was an escaped convict from Australia (with a background as a writer) who resurfaced in Bombay (now called Mumbai) and survived and prospered in the underworld of this incredible city during the 1980’s.
	www.21stbooks.com /page/21stbooks/prod/fi3129 (202 words)

	Shantaram moves into big screen : book, big screen, shantaram : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		The man behind Shantaram is getting ready to see his work translated on the big screen.
		Shantaram is set to be translated into Marathi this year.
		Shantaram is an excellent Novel and I sincerely hope the movie will be as good.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/shantaram-moves-into-big-screen/9205-8.html (387 words)

	Shantaram (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shantaram is an upcoming film based on the bestselling novel Shantaram written by Gregory David Roberts.
		Peter Weir was attached to direct at one point and got far into pre-production before having creative differences of how the book should be adapted with producer/star Johnny Depp.
		Shantaram is the story of an Australian convict nicknamed Lin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shantaram_(film) (361 words)

	Bite the Mango Film Festival 2003
		Shantaram this year by screening four of his films as well as a rare look at a documentary of his life.
		There will be an introduction to the work of Shantaram by Indian film historian and critic Lalit Mohan Joshi.
		V. Shantaram lived a long and presumably a happy life, just short of 90 years.
	www.bitethemango.org.uk /2003/strand_shantaram.asp (151 words)

	Feedback - Your Say
		I was given SHANTARAM as a gift on 18/11/03, which I finished reading a few weeks ago.
		Because I'm also working on the screenplay for the movie version of Shantaram, I expect that I won't have the sequel completed until the end of 2005.
		As you'll know by now, all your questions will be answered in the sequel to Shantaram: and yes, Lin does go to Sri Lanka in the sequel, and Karla and Lisa play very important parts in the story.
	www.shantaram.com /pages/yoursay.html (1612 words)

	BKMT Reading Guide: Shantaram : A Novel
		Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.
		"Shantaram is a novel of the first order, a work of extraordinary art, a thing of exceptional beauty.
		The movie rights to Shantaram were bought by Johnny Depp for $2 million soon after the book was published.
	www.bookmovement.com /app/readingguide/view.php?readingGuideID=759 (1040 words)

	Lens » Blog Archive » Shantaram (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Well…its been much time since I finished reading Shantaram and this is just an effort to organise the thoughts I had written that time.
		When I read Shantaram, I had thought it was all real-story (word to word) as the cover page claims, but it was much later did I come to know that it was a dramatisation of the real events.
		Shantaram dealt with the theme of exile, and book three — titled The Dark Side of the Mountain – will deal with moving from darkness to light.
	rkblogs.net /blog/2006/05/20/shantaram (3579 words)

	Foreign Prisoners Support Service
		Greg is now on the run, after breaking out of prison in Australia where he was convicted of armed robbery while under the influence of drugs, his life on the run takes him from New Zealand to Bombay India, where the story starts.
		And he falls in love Karla, the eloquent words of love and loss Greg writes of, as he learns of life and who and what kind of man he is and struggles to become while he struggles to survive on the run, is exciting memorizing enthralling, a story to read and savor!
		Shantaram is a thriller of the highest order; a love story profound and penetrating, cut bloody with truth, seen through the eyes of a poet philosopher gangster, a man on the run.
	www.phaseloop.com /foreignprisoners/exp-shantaram.html (666 words)

	Gregory David Roberts interviewed on the official website of writer, Laura Hhird
		‘Shantaram’ is that book, a long (almost 1000 pages, approximately 350,000 words), involved and frequently extraordinary novel based on Roberts’ experiences.
		There’s another film about incarceration called ‘Every Night, Every Night’ and that’s about the same punishment unit where we were routinely taken out of our cells and were beaten and tortured, so that’s worth a look as well, it’s a kind of companion piece to ‘Ghosts.
		One of the points in that film, and it’s also in ‘Shantaram’ to some degree, is that the notion of rehabilitation in the justice system seems like a fairytale.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/gregorydavidroberts.html (3446 words)

	Shantaram - smh.com.au
		Shantaram deals, brightly or darkly, with the interim period.
		What Roberts tells us is that the protagonist, "a brave, hard man without a plan", steps off an aeroplane in Bombay, and is quickly and lastingly befriended by a street guide called Prabaker, who introduces him to seedy Bombay life, and insists he change his assumed name, Lindsay, to Lin, or Linbaba.
		Shantaram is not so much a mirror as a mirror ball, spinning with relentless drive, dazzling but ungraspable.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/08/15/1060936055104.html (1005 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Shantaram' weaves a story of Bombay's unique underworld (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Part travelogue, part love letter, part autobiography, Shantaram is a vivid, entertaining but slightly grandiose tale of Lin, an ex-junkie and convicted robber who escapes from an Australian prison then hides in the most alien of places: the hot, filthy, decadent, seaside metropolis of Bombay.
		Lin briefly lives in a 5,000-year-old village where he earns the name Shantaram, which means man of peace.
		Although Shantaram gives too much of itself, its redemption lies in its bleeding-heart love letter to a Bombay few ever see.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/reviews/2004-11-17-shantaram_x.htm (610 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Hardtalk \| Greg Roberts' amazing story
		Gregory Roberts' first book Shantaram tells an extraordinary story of a man who becomes a drug addict and bank robber, escapes from an Australian prison and flees to Bombay -- where he works a doctor in the slums and runs with the Indian mafia.
		Roberts was eventually captured in Germany and extradited to Australia, where he served the rest of his prison sentence.
		The second time he decided the only thing to do was forgive the man who ripped up his life's work: "I looked at the shattered pieces of my own life in front of me and thought, if I don't do something to move past this, it will destroy me..
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4146087.stm (775 words)

	V. Shantaram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shantaram, renowned Indian filmmaker, was born Rajaram Vankudre, in the then princely state of Kolhapur, on November 18, 1901.
		Shantaram had an illustrious career as a filmmaker for almost six decades.
		He was one of the early filmmakers to realize the efficacy of the film medium as an instrument of social change and used it successfully to advocate humanism on one hand and expose bigotry and injustice on the other.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/V._Shantaram (213 words)

	St. Martin's Reading Group GoldReading Group Guide for Shantaram
		Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.
		Anyone who walks away from Shantaram untouched is either heartless or dead or both.
		The potency of Shantaram is the joy of forgiveness.
	www.readinggroupgold.com /product/rggpage.aspx?isbn=0312330537 (1688 words)

	Shantaram on Hollywood.com
		The Master and Commander director and Depp, who is also producing the film, had creative differences on how to approach the story.
		Although Depp has not proven to be "big box office" via these quirky choices, he has nevertheless won respect as a serious and dedicated actor.
		Shantaram's a very heavy book, 936 pages, small font, so heavy I'll...
	search.hollywood.com /movies/Shantaram (402 words)

	Shantaram
		Suddenly, through the din and the fog of the battle, the loud voice of Shantaram howling, “Ayo Gurkhali.
		Charge” rang out clearly and was soon taken up by the rest of the” Shindigs”.The attack was a success and the strong enemy post fell.
		The post was then rechristened “Shantaram” after the capture.
	www.nawang.com /shantaram.htm (515 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - Shantaram
		A spiritually enlightened Aussie fugitive (really, is there any other kind?), he takes refuge in the seedy slums of Bombay, where massive fires and cholera epidemics among the 11 million are as common as the yearly monsoon rains.
		Occasional overwriting is excused when the inspiration for Shantaram is understood: It's a succinctly dramatized version of the author's own life experiences, nearly as fantastic as the novel itself.
		Noted in the acknowledgements is that "the first two drafts of the book – which took six years' work and six hundred pages – were destroyed in prison," most likely by guards, whom Roberts shows a virulent distaste for in his writing.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:256178 (394 words)

	Powell's Books - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Shantaram has provided me with the richest reading experience to date and I don't expect anybody to unseat its all-round performance for a long time.
		Based directly upon the experiences of its author, Shantaram is the story of a man who escapes from a maximum security prison in Australia to arrive in Bombay, the crossroads of the underworld, where he works in a first-aid station and smuggles drugs and guns.
		Upon his release, he established a successful multimedia company, and since the international publication of Shantaram, he is a full-time writer, at home in several countries.
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0312330529 (1188 words)

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