Aghori Sadhus…some Indian wizards…

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Wizards don’t just exist in fairy tales…there are real ones…modern day Merlins who live among us as imperceptibly as the wizarding world lives among muggles in the Harry Potter Series. You may believe that what they do is magic or you may not. But from their perspective there are spirits, gods, and complex [...]

John Cleese checks out Laughing Yoga in Mumbai

The slogan goes “Fake it fake it till you make it.” Because apparently the health benefits of laughter are not limited to spontaneous giggles. Even fake laughter releases the endorphins that make the body relieve stress. John Cleese, one of the comedic geniuses of Monty Python checks it out and even goes to a Jail [...]

Philosophy of Dogs in Bombay…

An unusual art house film from our in-house amigos, Matti and Tatu:
Have the dogs that lie around every street corner, beside every shop, under train platforms and under foot….attained Nirvana? Are they numb? Are they just chilling? Find out what these two Finnish madmen have to say about Bombay and its dogs…
Philosophy of Dogs [...]

A Brief History of Bollywood Horror by Omar Ali Khan

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Here is a rare documentary where Omar Ali Khan gives us a brief history of Bollywood Horror. Gives a really nice overview and little known facts such as that Purana Mandir-1984- was made popular by couples who went to see it together as a “fright”-of passage…(evidently to scream and thereby lapse into [...]

SUMMER in my VEINS- 1999 Documentary short about a Gay Indian coming out to his mother on camera by Nishit Saran

This a short documentary film (split in 2 parts for youtube) in which Nishit Sharan, a gay Indian who was studying film-making in Harvard, decided to film himself coming out to his mother, who was visiting him for graduation. He is also dealing with the anxiety of having slept with someone with HIV and during [...]