Shantaram

Lin is an escaped convict with a false passport, who flees a maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars, gangsters, prostitutes, holy men, soldiers, actors, Indians—and exiles from other countries—who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.