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Book 1: Shantaram (film project)

The protagonist of the novel lost his life's guidelines due to family troubles and turned into a drug addict and a robber. He was convicted of a number of crimes, but escaped from an Australian prison where he was supposed to serve a nineteen-year sentence. With false documents under the name of Lindsay Ford, he escapes to Mumbai (Bombay), India. The first person the hero meets is the guide Prabaker, who becomes his true friend. Within a short time, Lin made friends with many locals and foreigners living in Mumbai. These acquaintances will bring the hero numerous adventures, in which there will be danger, love, pain, friendship, betrayal, film business, death, poetry, fights, a travelling circus, political and criminal showdowns, drugs, weapons, philosophical conversations, war and, of course, Indian gods, Indian cuisine, Indian dancing and singing. On the streets of Bombay, Lin meets the beautiful and mysterious Carla, whose relationship with him has become a difficult test. After being robbed and beaten, the hero will live in an Indian village and work as a farmer, practice medicine in the Bombay slums, go to prison, work for a mafia clan, and take part in the Afghan war. Is this the freedom that Lin so longed for? What is chance, what is fate, what is his own decision, and what is the manifestation of someone else's will in his life?

Book 2. Shadow of the Mountain (film project)

Two years have passed since the events of the novel Shantaram - since Lin lost his family: Khaderbhai, who became his father, his beloved Carla, who married a handsome Indian media mogul, Prabaker and Khaled, who were like brothers to him. Lin the smuggler returns to a city that has changed too quickly and unrecognisably. Many of his friends are long gone, the mafia is weaving more and more cruel and dangerous intrigues, and the legendary saint makes him doubt everything he has learned about life and love over the years. However, Lin cannot leave the City-Island, as South Mumbai is often called, because Karla and one fateful promise do not let him go.