The best-selling book has finally arrived on our screens after many attempts
After almost 20 years of discussions, plans, and aborted productions, Gregory David Roberts’ best-selling 2003 novel,Having gone through potential leading men , writers and directors quicker than ice melting in the Mumbai sun, it finally found a home in Apple TV+.This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Four years later, we have our final, finished retelling of the story; a 12-episode series that, like the far-reaching action in the book, will jump from Australia to India to Afghanistan and beyond.
After the pair are robbed, Lin is forced to live in the slums of Mumbai, and in order to connect with the community, Lin sets up a make-shift health clinic and becomes embedded in the locals’ lives and culture. There’s a love story plot when Lin falls in love with Karla, a Swiss-American woman, but Lin is pulled back into a dark underworld. He is recruited to carry out illegal activities by organised crime gangs, and eventually ends up in prison again, this time Mumbai’s Arthur Road prison. He ends up being protected by the Afghan mafia and is released, but ends up in Afghanistan smuggling weapons for mujahideen freedom fighters.
In 1990, Roberts was captured again in Frankfurt, and was extradited to Australia and served six years in prison; two of which were in solitary confinment. It was here he began writing the manuscript for: “I was about 400 pages in when I came back from an exercise period and discovered that a prison officer had torn my manuscript into tiny fragments and that they were flowing out of the toilet bowl. He was a very harsh critic.
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