![]() Not away from it.” I can see it laid out in a lovely font across a picture of a sunrise already. By the end of the opening episode, Dale, under the alias Lin (the name on his false passport), says: “I guess I need to be running towards something. Along the way, he meets various characters who speak in inspirational quotes, such as: “You haven’t escaped anything unless you go on to something.” It is clearly catching. Eventually he winds up in Mumbai, then called Bombay. He can’t trust the authorities, for reasons that are drip-fed throughout, so he plots a daring escape. ![]() He isn’t a grass, but the rest of the inmates think he is, so he fears for his life. It is the early 1980s and Hunnam is Dale, an inmate in an Australian prison that looks very much like an advert for Diesel jeans, or a Calvin Klein campaign – CK: Incarceration. It turns out to be a bit of a thriller, with a smattering of morality lessons, though its main moral is that if there’s any chance for star Charlie Hunnam to have a conversation after having taken off his top, or being in the process of taking it off, then yes, he will do it. I admit that I was expecting a sort of Eat Pray Love, with added hunk. ![]() S hantaram (Apple TV+) is an adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ weighty 2003 novel of self-discovery. ![]()
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