Johnny Depp’s love of the book and desire to star in an adaptation convinced Warner Brothers to option the movie rights. Roberts used some of the proceeds to return to the slums and pay for life ...

Movie directors do the same thing, in choosing representative colours, scenery, temperature of the cinematography, and unifying symbols, such as a cross depicted in the frame of a window ...

After nearly two decades in development, Gregory David Roberts' bestselling novel about crime, humanity and redemption in the slums of Bombay arrives as a TV series. By Daniel Fienberg Chief ...

Author Gregory David Roberts has had to reaffirm several times ... with film executives eager for years to create an on-screen movie adaptation. Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe and Joel Egerton have ...

Once you get beyond the strange accents, fake locations, lurching plot and white saviour clichés (that is a big ask) Shantaram, based on Gregory David Roberts’ 936 page-tome, is vaguely engrossing.

And so it was that, over recent days, I finally got around to reading a 930-page epic called Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts ... involvement in Bollywood movies, and a period in Afghanistan ...