Ruislip & Eastcote & Northwood Gazette
ON THE RUN
SHANTARAM Apple TV+, from Friday, October 14
GREGORY David Roberts’ best-selling biographical novel is the source of this 12-part series which follows the exploits of drug addict and bank robber Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) who tries to start a new life in 1980s India while he’s on the run. Working as a doctor in the slums of Mumbai as a means of redemption, he thinks he’s escaped his past, but it catches up with him eventually. His connections to the underworld lead to him going to Afghanistan where he is pitted against sinister Russian crime lords.