Shantaram official trailer

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Escaped convict Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) flees to the teeming streets of 1980s Bombay, looking to disappear. Working as a medic for the city’s poor and neglected, Lin finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption. Based on the best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts, stream Shantaram October 14 only on Apple

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[peddlestools]

Do we need another movie taking place in South Asia that centers a white person?

[dr_bong]

Aren’t most movies made in South Asia center around south Asian people? Hindi cinema has overtaken the U.S. film industry to become the largest centre for film production in the world…
This movie is in fact an anomaly in the massive wave of movies that get released yearly… people here are unhinged…

[peddlestools]

And how many of those Bollywood movies get wide releases in the US?

[dr_bong]

Rrr just sat at the top ten on Netflix for a month

[peddlestools]

RRR is the exception and only a VERY recent release. And even then it was not released in movie theaters in America. I'm talking about movies that get released worldwide, though specifically English speaking countries since we're comparing American or British made movies centering white people to Hollywood features starring south Asians and/or Bollywood movies. Bollywood movies typically do not receive the same type of release the exotic marigold hotel did, for example, or the impossible. Both of those movies were widely released in major chain theaters in nearly every city across America.

I'm racking my brain trying to think of the last time I saw a movie about Indian people in India in a movie theater that was at a large movie theater and not an arthouse or small specialty theater and can only come up with slum dog millionaire and how many years ago was that?

I think it's fair to complain about yet another white people discovering themselves in Asia movie

[peddlestools]

I stopped reading after you got to the part where you live in New York City

[dr_bong]

And with streaming honestly every single one of them