Deccan Herald – Panaji, UNI: Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp could well become the star of the Goa International Film Festival of India (IFFI) next year.
Renowned film-maker Shyam Benegal has advised Festival Director Afzal Amanullah to invite Depp for IFFI 2006 when the actor is here in November next year shooting ‘Shantaram’, an adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’s best-selling book by the same title.
‘Shantaram’, which will be produced by Depp (who will also act in the film), is about an Australian convict who escapes to Mumbai in the 1980s where he sets up a medical practice and his adventures in Afghanistan.
