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Oct 14, 2022 · In the novel, “Shantaram” is a name given to Lin by the mother of Prabhaker (the novel version of the character Prabhu). After meeting Lin, Prabhaker’s mother starts to think he should have an Indian name and starts to call him “Shantaram,” which translates to “man of God’s peace.”
Shantaram is a 2003 novel by Gregory David Roberts, in which a convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of life in Bombay in the early to late 1980s.
Jan 1, 2003 · 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.
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91. Play trailer 0:31. 8 Videos. 58 Photos. Action Adventure Crime Drama Thriller. Lindsay arrives in Mumbai after escaping from an Australian prison. He meets Prabhakar who takes him to his native village where he relaunches his criminal career as Shantaram in the city's notorious underworld. Stars. Charlie Hunnam. Fayssal Bazzi. Sujaya Dasgupta.
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Oct 13, 2022 · In the novel, after arriving in Bombay, Lin befriends Prabaker, who is based on Prabhakar Kisan Khare, a real guide GDR befriended after escaping to the Indian city from Pentridge Prison. As the novel portrays, GDR had visited and stayed in an Indian village with Prabhakar and was robbed on his way back to Bombay. “There was a guy. […]
Nov 10, 2013 · In the early 80s, Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. Roberts claims that the characters in Shantaram are a work of fiction, but merged with elements from true events and people.
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Nov 11, 2011 · A city where the imagined reality and the real world come face to face. In the novel Shantaram, Linbaba’s Mumbai is at once a place of glamour and destitution – a place where spectacular wealth...
