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Shantaram is an American drama thriller television series created by Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot, based on the novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts.[1] The story drew inspiration from Roberts' own life, which is about a bank robber from Australia who flees the country to India. The series will consist of twelve episodes directed by Justin Kurzel and Bharat Nalluri. Steve Lightfoot joined as showrunner after Eric Warren Singer departed the project. It is produced by Fair Honest Positive Creative, The 4 Keys, Bohemian Risk Productions, Square Head Productions, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television Studios and was distributed by Apple Inc. for their streaming service, Apple TV+. The series premiered on October 14, 2022.[2]

Shantaram
Genre	Drama Thriller
Created by	Eric Warren Singer Steve Lightfoot
Based on	Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Directed by	Justin Kurzel Bharat Nalluri Iain B. MacDonald
Starring	Charlie Hunnam Fayssal Bazzi Sujaya Dasgupta Antonia Desplat Elham Ehsas David Field Matthew Joseph Rachel Kamath Alyy Khan Elektra Kilbey Shiv Palekar Luke Pasqualino Vincent Perez Shubham Saraf Gabrielle Scharnitzky Alexander Siddig
Composer	Adam Peters
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producers	Steve Lightfoot Andrea Barron Bharat Nalluri Nicole Clemens Steve Golin Eric Warren Singer Justin Kurzel David Manson Richard Sharkey
Producers	Charlie Hunnam Ben Dubash Marisha Mukerjee Marion Dayre
Cinematography	Stefan Duscio
Editor	Geraud Brisson
Running time	48–60 minutes
Production companies	Fair Honest Positive Creative The 4 Keys Bohemian Risk Productions Square Head Productions Anonymous Content Paramount Television Studios
Distributor	Apple Inc.
Release
Original network	Apple TV+
Original release	October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14) – present (present)

Cast

Main

• Charlie Hunnam as Dale Conti/Lindsay "Linbaba" Ford, an Australian former paramedic-in-training who was arrested and subsequently imprisoned for a series of armed robberies until he eventually escaped from Pentridge Prison. He successfully flees to Bombay, India, changes his identity, and lives life as a wanted man. He also serves as the narrator of the series. The character of Lindsay is based on the life of Gregory David Roberts, the author of Shantaram.
• Fayssal Bazzi as Abdullah Taheri, an Iranian underboss who works for the crime lord Khader Khan.
• Sujaya Dasgupta as Kavita, a young journalist looking for a new story.
• Antonia Desplat as Karla Saaranen, a mysterious Swiss woman and Lin's love interest who is involved with the criminal underworld of Bombay.
• Elham Ehsas as Sebastian Modena, one of Lisa's Italian pimps and Maurizio's friend.
• David Field as Wally Nightingale, a police detective in the Victoria Police who investigated Lin's crimes. After torturing Lin for information, he torments him in his dreams.
• Matthew Joseph as Ravi, a young boy living in the Sagar Wada slum who is orphaned following the death of his mother, Lakshmi.
• Rachel Kamath as Parvati, a young woman who runs a tea stall in the Sagar Wada slum who Prabhu is romantically interested in.
• Alyy Khan as Qasim Ali, the respected headman of the Sagar Wada slum.
• Elektra Kilbey as Lisa Carter, Karla's American friend who is a prostitute suffering from substance abuse.
• Shiv Palekar as Vikram, a Bollywood stuntman who is obsessed with Spaghetti Westerns.
• Luke Pasqualino as Maurizio, another one of Lisa's Italian pimps and a drug trafficker who dislikes Lin.
• Vincent Perez as Didier Levy, Karla's French partner who acts as a middleman for various criminals.
• Shubham Saraf as Prabaker "Prabhu" Kharre, a friendly tour guide who lives in the Sagar Wada slum and the first person Lin meets after arriving in Bombay.
• Gabrielle Scharnitzky as Madame Zhou, the owner of "the Palace", a brothel that services wealthy clients.
• Alexander Siddig as Abdel Khader Khan, one of the biggest crime lords in Bombay who is fighting for control of the city's criminal underworld.

Recurring

• Rahel Romahn as Rafiq, a hardened criminal who ran books for the crime lord Walid Shah.
• Mel Odedra as Walid Shah, a crime lord in Bombay and the rival of Khader Khan.
• Arka Das as Nishant Patel
• Sushant Davane as Ramesh
• Suraj Kolarkar as Johnny Cigar

Episodes

This section's plot summaries may be too long or excessively detailed. (October 2022)

No.	Title [3]	Directed by	Teleplay by [1]	Original release date [3]
1	"The Three Nos"	Bharat Nalluri	Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot	October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14)
Dale Conti, a former ambulance driver, heroin addict, and bank robber, escapes from Pentridge Prison in Australia. Traveling to Bombay under the assumed name Lindsay Ford, he encounters the eager Prabhu, who helps him get situated and christens him with the nickname "Lin." During a chance encounter with the beautiful Karla, Lin is invited to the bar Reynaldo's Cafe, frequented by several expatriates with ties to the city's underworld, including the Swiss Karla, the French fixer Didier, an American call girl named Lisa, and her Italian pimps Maurizo and Modena, as well as Bombay locals Kavita, a journalist, and Vikram, a Bollywood stunt actor. After Maurizio coerces Lisa into the employ of Madame Zhou, a brothel madam exploiting Lisa's heroin habit, Karla entreats Lin to assume the identity of an American diplomat to vouchsafe Lisa's release. Lin, who is beginning to develop feelings for Karla, reluctantly agrees, and her plan succeeds. Returning home from Karla's apartment, Lin is beaten and robbed of all his possessions, including his passport and his money, by Zhou's men.
2	"Down and Out"	Bharat Nalluri	Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot	October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14)
A dazed Lin is found in the street by a policeman, who escorts him to his hotel. At Prabhu's urging, Lin escapes the hotel before the officer can investigate his past, and a now penniless Lin relocates to Prabhu's home in the Sagar Wada slums. Lin seeks help from Karla, who is indifferent to his plight, and Didier, who refuses to pull any strings on his behalf. Desperate, he calls his friend Charlie, who is revealed to have aided Lin on his flight from Australia, but Charlie cuts him loose. Lisa, who is experiencing withdrawals, recalls to Karla a tryst with a corrupt politician named Rujul Aadekar, who had promised crimelord Walid Shah the land of the Sagar Wada slums for a development deal. Karla reports this to rival crime boss Abdel Khader Khan, who was originally promised the land, and Khader Khan personally executes Aadekar for his duplicity. Karla delivers payment to Lin for his role in Lisa's rescue. Disillusioned with Karla and Bombay, Lin prepares to leave but he is attacked by a would-be assassin. The assassin is deterred when Lin kicks burning coals onto him, causing the assassin's clothes and a nearby shack to catch alight, starting a fire that quickly spreads.
3	"Strange Bedfellows"	Bharat Nalluri	David Manson and Eric Warren Singer and Steve Lightfoot	October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14)
Flashbacks reveal how Lin came to be arrested; after robbing a bank, his partner Charlie shoots an officer attempting to detain Lin, and Lin stays behind to perform emergency first aid. After helping to fight the fire at Sagar Wada, Lin performs triage on the slum's injured residents. Prabhu's neighbor, Lakshmi, is fatally wounded, leaving behind a son, Ravi. The following day, throngs of slum residents entreat Lin for medical aid, and he hesitantly agrees. Feeling guilty about his role in starting the fire, Lin gives Karla's money to the Sagar Wada's village head, Qasim Ali, to aid in rebuilding. Khader Khan arranges a sit-down with Walid Shah, who makes it clear that Khader's reluctance to traffick in drugs and sex has made him appear weak. Khader threatens Madame Zhou for hosting the meeting between Shah and Aadekar, and Zhou in turn intimidates Maurizio into selling heroin in Khader's territory. Having heard tell of his heroism in the slums, Khader summons Lin to a meeting and takes him on a nightlong tour of Bombay alongside his underboss Abdullah. The three discuss business, philosophy, and god. After a Ghazal performance, Karla, who has neglected Lisa's rehabilitation to try and impress Khader, introduces herself to the table. Upon his return to Sagar Wada, Lin is attacked by Ravi, and surrenders himself to the boy's judgment, before Qasim intervenes.
4	"Bad Medicine"	Iain B. MacDonald	Ben Dubash	October 21, 2022 (2022-10-21)
In the past, Lin pleads guilty at his trial despite a lack of evidence connecting him to the bank robbery. In the present, Lin clashes with the local hospital, which will not treat the patients he refers to them without bribe money. To raise funds to buy medicine, he and Prabhu start guiding tourists. Unable to find medical supplies, however, he turns to Khader Khan for a connection to the black market in medical goods. Khader instructs Abdullah to help Lin procure the supplies, but encourages him to take his time so that Lin will feel more grateful. Returning from their fruitless meeting with the supplier, Abdullah is attacked and nearly stabbed by Walid Shah's lieutenant Rafiq, but Lin helps him fight off the assailants. Out of gratitude to Lin, Khader pays for the medicine. Karla meets with Aakash Pandey, the minister who replaced Aadekar, on Khader's behalf. Pandey, however, has already been bribed by Shah, who threatens a gang war if Khader continues to pursue the Sagar Wada development. Lisa, who has left Karla's care, returns home and is looked after by Modena, who helps her to clean her apartment of heroin paraphernalia. Maurizio sells one kilogram of Zhou's heroin to Raheem, a local drug dealer from Lagos.
5	"The Sin in the Crime"	Iain B. MacDonald	Ken Kristensen	October 28, 2022 (2022-10-28)
In Sagar Wada, Abdullah publicly gifts Lin with a Royal Enfield motorcycle for saving his life, causing a stir among the residents of the slum. Shah's lieutenant Rafiq tails Lin and Abdullah to Reynaldo's and threatens them both. Karla accuses Khader of using Lin as a pawn in his struggle against Shah; Khader maintains that Lin is "a distraction." Kavita stops by Lin's home in the slums, endeavoring to write a story about his feats there. When she takes his photograph without permission, he grabs her camera and tears out the film. Looking into his records, she discovers that Lin used a dead man's passport to enter the country. Qasim undertakes a collection to pay Lin back for the medicine, averring that the slum cannot afford to be indebted to Khader Khan. Khader meets privately with the man who assailed Lin in the slums, sending him away just before Lin drops by with Qasim's money. At Prabhu's urging, Lin pays a late night visit to Karla, where he tells her the truth of his past life and his escape from Australia, and she tells him of her father's suicide. The two share a kiss, but Karla stops the night from progressing further.
6	"Dead Man Walking"	Iain B. MacDonald	Marion Dayre	November 4, 2022 (2022-11-04)
Lin tries to convince Kavita to drop the story; she agrees in person, but has him covertly photographed by her editor, Nishant. Maurizio's newfound wealth raises questions for Karla and Lisa. Karla tells Abdullah, her ex-lover, that Maurizio is selling heroin in Khader's territory. Lisa convinces Modena to tell her that Zhou is supplying the drugs. Didier is arrested escaping from a tryst with a married man and tortured by the police. Lin - who is keen to use Didier's passport-forging connections in the face of Kavita's investigations - bails him out of prison with the help of Vikram, and spends the night helping Didier recuperate. While Lin is busy with Didier, his clinical assistant, Parvati, falls seriously ill while on a date with Prabhu, who searches in vain for Lin.
7	"Apo Vai Pranah"	Bronwen Hughes	Bornila Chatterjee	November 11, 2022 (2022-11-11)
8	"Like in the Time of Cholera"	TBA	Eric Binswanger	November 18, 2022 (2022-11-18)
9	TBA	TBA	Bruce Marshall Romans	November 25, 2022 (2022-11-25)
10	TBA	TBA	Teleplay by : Aaron Sprecher Adaptation by : Marisha Mukerjee	December 2, 2022 (2022-12-02)
11	TBA	TBA	Teleplay by : Bruce Marshall Romans Adaptation by : Marisha Mukerjee and Shaun Gray	December 9, 2022 (2022-12-09)
12	TBA	TBA	Steve Lightfoot & Ken Kristensen	December 16, 2022 (2022-12-16)

Production

Origin

When the novel Shantaram was published in 2003, several parties expressed interest in a film adaptation. As Warner Bros. purchased the film's rights for $2 million, Brad Grey, an executive of the company, decided to hire Johnny Depp due to his expression of love for the book, which was to be based on a script written by the book's author Gregory David Roberts.[4] In October 2005, Warner Bros. hired screenwriter Eric Roth to rewrite the initial draft created by Roberts.[5] The following November, the studio hired Peter Weir to direct and to develop the script with Roth.[6]

Originally planned to schedule production for late 2006, in June of that year, Weir departed from the project with a studio spokesperson citing different interpretations between the director, the studio, and producers, and was replaced by Mira Nair in January 2007.[7] The studio initially wanted to start production in early 2007, which was later cancelled by Warner Bros, citing the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike's interference with the script's readiness, the schedule, and climatic conflicts with the difficulties in filming between India and New Mexico in the United States.[8]

Although in November 2008, The Independent reported the project had been cancelled,[9] a report in May 2013, from the Mumbai Mirror stated that Warner Bros. had negotiated to retain the film rights until 2015, speculating that a film adaptation of Shantaram was still in the works.[10] The following October, Depp approached Joel Edgerton to star in his place also being involved in the project as a producer.[11] Warner Bros. was in early talks with Garth Davis, co-director of the Emmy-nominated Top of the Lake, to make his feature film directing debut on the movie which also failed to happen.[12][13]

Development

In January 2018, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television Studios acquired the rights to Shantaram, with plans to repurpose it as a television series.[14] In June 2018, it was announced that Apple Inc. was developing a television adaptation of the novel for Apple TV+, becoming one of their first international production with two other series announced during its launch.[15][16] Eric Warren Singer was appointed as the screenwriter, who was to also serve as the executive producer alongside David Manson, Nicole Clemens, Steve Golin, and Andrea Barron with Charlie Hunnam in the lead role.[17] Singer took more than year to complete the writing of the series. Pre-production work was completed by August 2019. In September 2019, Charlie Hunnam, Richard Roxburgh and Radhika Apte were cast as series leads, with Justin Kurzel set to direct the first two and last two episodes of the ten-part series.[18][19]

Shantaram was set to begin in Victoria, Australia, and Bhopal, India, as the primary locations. The Australian Government planned to provide $5 million for the production of the project through its Location Incentive program, with the Victorian Government also supporting the series through Film Victoria's Production Incentive Attraction Fund.[20] The budget was estimated at $100 million.[21]

In February 2020, Singer stepped down as showrunner of the series,[22] stating that the delay in shooting had created potential scheduling conflicts.[23] In November 2020, Apple hired Steve Lightfoot as the new showrunner for the series,[24][25] who completed writing the remaining episodes; Alexander Siddig joined the cast in March 2021. Siddig was approached to play the role of Kader Khan, a role rumored to have been meant for Amitabh Bachchan, who Mira Nair had proposed.[26][27] Bharat Nalluri was announced as director of the remaining six episodes.[28]

Filming

Filming of the series began in October 2019 in Australia,[29] followed by a move to India in November 2019, with a significant portion of the series expected to be shot over the course of a year in Bhopal and various other locations in Madhya Pradesh.[21] Shooting of the series was suspended in February 2020 due to the Indian monsoon season which happens in the June–October period, adding to the reasons were Singer's departure from the series leading to a writing backlog,[22] as well as the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.[23] Production restarted in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2021 before additional filming was moved to Thailand due to India's worsening COVID-19 outbreaks.[28][30] Production returned to Melbourne in August 2021. All principal photography was completed in mid-December 2021.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 53% approval rating with an average rating of 6.2/10, based on 15 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Charlie Hunnam is appealingly roguish as the irascible Lin Ford, but Shantaram's lack of a propelling narrative leaves this compelling character stranded."[31] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 62 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[32]

References

External links

• Shantaram at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Shantaram (TV series)

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[ru] Шантарам (сериал)

«Шантарам» — будущий драматический телесериал-триллер, основанный на одноименном романе Грегори Дэвида Робертса. Он будет состоять из 10 эпизодов, снятых режиссерами Джастином Курцелем и Бхаратом Наллури по сценарию Стива Лайтфута. Главную роль в сериале сыграл Чарли Ханнэм. Премьера состоится 14 октября 2022 года на Apple TV+.

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