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Mira Nair`s eternal wait for Johnny Depp

Mira Nair is now just waiting for Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp to give the green signal to her dream project `Shantaram`.

New Delhi: The script is set and the cameras are ready to roll. Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair is now just waiting for Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp to give the green signal to her dream project `Shantaram`. Depp, who is also producing the film, is set to play the lead in the movie which also casts Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan.
The film adapted from Gregory David Roberts autobiographical novel by the same name tells the story of a fugitive Australian who lands in Mumbai and befriends the slum-dwellers and starts a free medical clinic. However, he can`t completely keep away from the crime world and after his stint with Mumbai prisons, he gets into laundering money and forging passports for a local don, Abdel Khader Khan, which is to be played by Bachchan in the film. PTI