I've been a big Charlie Hunnam fan since Sons of Anarchy so I thought I'd give this a chance when I first heard about it. Then I saw the trailers and looked forward to it even more. It's every bit as good as I had hoped and Hunnam does an excellent job as the lead here. He plays a former heroin addict name Lin Ford who goes to Bombay n the 1980's as a fugitive looking to reinvent his life. There he becomes a doctor and finds himself in a lot of trouble by partnering with a crime boss that's in a war with some Russian gangsters and have to go to Afghanistan to sort it all out. He also alls in love with a woman that further complicates things while he tries to get his freedom from everyone.
Review of Shantaram
