Okay, here's a plot synopsis crying out for adaption into a riveting Channel Nine telemovie:
Kevan, son of Indian immigrants. He likes sport and junkfood. He's drummer in Dub Reggae band.
He quits the band for an internship with ASIO in Canberra
Because there's no new recruits even vaguely subcontinental, he's posted undercover to the Muslim enclave of Junagadh, in Gujurat, India to help assess links between a suspected Islamicist group with links to Coburg
He discovers and infiltrates a cell operating out of fairy floss factory called the Sugar Bomb.
The head of dispatch is a stoned prophet who eschews idolatry and also runs a fan blog dedicated to Shane Warne.
Kevan gets nailed on cheap truck-driver's kif, has a mystical revelation and decides to drop of the radar.
He becomes a sadhu.
He hits the road, heading for Gomba Mela holy festival.
He's befriended by a rich Swiss woman who is riding her horse to Vladivostok
It turns out she is married to Lee Scratch Perry, one of Kevan's favourite Dub Reggae singers.
ASIO has sent out someone to track him down, in fear that he has ‘turned’.
He is captured by CIA in Udaidpur or Pushkar, but escapes with help of the Swiss woman in New Dehli.
He gets a boat to Sri Lanka, then onto Jakarta. Australia
His boat is intercepted by the navy and he ends up in detention on Christmas Island.
His real identity is eventually found out and he becomes a media identity. After several weekend magazine interviews, he gets his own cooking show.
a year later, he's kidnapped by ASIO on Saturday morning while picking up the drycleaning.
A sugar bomb goes off the next day in Sydney Road, during the Coburg People's Festival.
No one is injured, but there's fairy floss everywhere.
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