Shantaram not shelved says director Mira Nair

[Andy]

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That's right, you can expect the film in 2011. Mira got talking about the supposed 'shelved' Shantaram film while attending an event to promote her husband's (Mahmood Mamdani) book 'Good Muslim Bad Muslim'.

You can find a video of Mira talking about this and the Shantaram film by heading over to the timesnow.tv website.

Her admission that the film is not shelved but expected to release is 2011 isn't exactly news. Fans have assumed that the long delay probably put it somewhere in this time scale, but the statement from Mira Nair does confirm once again to fans of the book that the movie is still on the cards.

[Andrew]

2011 is a long wait. I think I am one of the few here who really doesn't care if the movie is released or not. I find that I usually end up frustrated and angry at the way my favourite books end up as movies. Although I admire Johnny Depp, I cannot picture him as Lin. There is too much in Shantaram to even scratch the surface in a three hour movie. Just my thoughts.

[Andy]

I partly agree Andrew, I would rather see another book than the film being released.

Having seen a few of Mira Nair's films recently, I have high hopes that the film will at least be authentic to the feel of the book -that much I'm pretty sure on- but it will without a doubt be a watered down version of the story. Much is lost from that when a book is made into a film, and that's inevitable I suppose. I also think that it's natural that film makers want to take the creation of a writer's best work (a finished, edited book) and create a visual interpretation.