Before anyone gets all excited, this starbuck is not related to the gorgeous, spirited and sexy pilot of Battlestar Galactica… a huge fan though.
So, Gregory David Roberts’s pretentious tome, “Shantaram” is being made into a movie, with no less than Johnny Depp and Amitabh Bachchan starring in it. Don’t know if anyone else got the same feeling, but methinks it was created with the hope that it will one day grace the silver screens across the world. It has all the Masala of a Hollywood film complete with prison torture, odd "Madame" characters, War and a dying hero in this same war. Best part is, it will also appeal to the bollywood crowd, as it seems to have bollywood masala cleverly woven into the plot! Ah globalization !
If anyone out there is asking for my opinion, I think Leonardo Di Caprio would have made a far better Shantaram. No substitute for Amitabh Bachchan for the role of Khader Bhai. I hope they pick Rajpal Yadav for the part of Prabhaker.
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