Category Archives: Documentaries

Welcome to the picturesque Kullu Valley. Nestling under the shadow of the majestic Himalayas, in the Northern Indian State of Himachal Pradesh. This region is also known as “Dev Bhoomi”- The Land of Gods where every village is home to several Gods and Goddesses (Devta’s & Devi’s) who are revered as Living Gods.

The conduit to these Devi’s and Devta’s is the Himachali Shaman (Gur), who is at the core of the community’s spiritual sustenance. Himachali Gurs mediate between them and the invisible worlds of energy and spirit.

Filmmaker Anu Malhotra sets out to explore this mythical and magical world of the Shamans of the Himalayas, in a quest to unveil the mysteries that surround them.

And through her exploration, Anu witnesses and experience rare and never before documented sacred rituals, magico – religious practices, traditional healing techniques and exorcisms.  She also interacts with unforgettable Shamans, who are oracles, trance mediums and healers, and gets a glimpse into their personal stories and struggles.

Anu’s journey through this “different reality”, is presented in this 4-part series. Anu makes this journey intimate for the viewer by juxtaposing her internal journey with the compelling world that she witnesses.

“This time I go forth to encounter the reality of experience, the collective consciousness of a system of belief, unique in its cultural context but common to all our histories.”

Channel – Discovery Channel India
Episodes – 4 episodes X 60 minutes
Format – HD CAM

The Sufi and the Scientist is the collective story of Sufi Healer Sayyid Arif Hussain whose salvation lies in healing people with the help and guidance of his spirit guide, the medieval Sufi Sheikh Haji Ali and Dr. Thornton Streeter, a scientist working in the realm of human consciousness and trying like many others to decipher the secrets of the consciousness so as to bridge the incompatibility of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity with the Theory of quantum mechanics.

Set in the backdrop of mystical Sufi India, with unusual access to the world of shamans, sorcerers and exorcists within the folds of Islam, the Sufi and the Scientist explores what objects or mediums within the understanding of Islam, can serve as probes to the world beyond our familiar three dimensions. How intra dimensional energy bodies can cross dimensions and enter our world invisible to the unseeing eye, because we only see what we believe is possible. The reality before us is created by our consciousness. Therefore, in theory as well as in practice, there are infinite possibilities and variations of what constitutes reality. All realities co-exist simultaneously and are complementary to each other. The number of such realities is a matter of perspective and arguably are influenced and limited by destiny.

The reality before us is nothing but possible movements of consciousness.
We as individuals choose moment to moment out of those movements to bring our actual experience to manifestation.
The world for us is not there independent of our personal experience.
So who for each of us actually chooses among the various possibilities to bring the actual event into experience?
This choice is made by the spirit in our body that actually decides the reality that we choose to see.
Therefore, realistically, we create our own reality depending upon our level of consciousness and awareness.
This is what quantum physics tells us.
Therefore, apart from our own reality, all other realities co-exist simultaneously and are complementary to each other.
At the core of all these realities is unity.
Everything merges into the unity.
This is what the Hindus call the Atman or God.
In January 2006 Northeastern University and University of California scientists said they might soon have evidence of extra dimensions on the basis of results from a neutrino detector at the South Pole called AMANDA.
Neutrinos are ghost like particles from space that could serve as probes to a world beyond our familiar three dimensions This could provide the first enduring evidence for string theory and other theories that attempt to build our current understanding of the universe.
These theories have developed to bridge the gap between the 20th century’s two most successful theories namely, general relativity and quantum mechanics.
The Sufi and the Scientist blends the spiritual mysticism of the orient with the scientific temperament of the occident and unravels the role of the consciousness in explaining the mysteries of physics and spirituality.

Series Title: The Sufi and The Scientist
Channel: Red Media Group (Russia)
Format – HD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Duration: 1 X 45 Minutes
Language: English

Two brave Indian families whose religions originated in the Middle East have risen above fear and strife and celebrated life with all its joy. Fayaz Ahmed, who left Kashmir in search of a better life in Delhi, has bravely returned to his homeland to celebrate the marriage of his daughter with full traditions without fear.

For Ezra Moses and his ancestors, Bombay was only meant to be an interim halt after their flight from Jerusalem in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple. But over millennia, India has become their motherland who has given the Bene Israel a peace that history has rarely bestowed on the Jewish diaspora anywhere in the world; a peace that cannot be shattered by any terrorist.

This is a story of how Ezra Moses and Fayaz Ahmad, both Indians and yet both descendents of the Biblical Abraham, one a Jew and the other a Muslim, shrugged off their fear and raised their heads in bravery to brush aside the machinations of the Pakistan based terrorist mafia so as to celebrate their own freedom in an expression of joy and happiness by marrying off their children.

Ezra’s son Yuval married Celina on January 25th 2009 in Bombay and Fayaz’s daughter Maina married Hussain on 25th June, 2009 in Srinagar.

Series Title: Two Weddings in the time of the Brave
Format – HD
Duration – 45 minutes
Language – English

The film looks at the intertwined interests and relationships between the British, the Tibetans, the Chinese and the Indians over the 20th century and beyond, on the subject of Tibetan sovereignty. Political expediency at different points of time governed these relationships. However, both the British and the Indians were united in their desire to keep the Chinese out of Tibet.

Paradoxically, because of hitherto unrevealed and highly secret political compulsions, independent India’s first Prime Minister Nehru had to kowtow to the Chinese and acquiesced to the Chinese annexation of Tibet in October 1950. Nevertheless, the unique Indian contradiction, simultaneously relied upon the British and Tibetan Agreement of 1914 to define independent India’s borders with Red China, while acquiescing to China’s historical centuries old claim to  Tibet, dating from the Huan Dynasty.

Was Tibet ever free?

Did the Dalai Lama invite the Chinese to take over Tibet in 1950?

Why did the Indians go to war with the Chinese over the Indo- Tibetan boundary?

Why does India provide a haven to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Govt. in Exile, if India does not recognize Tibetan sovereignty?

Will Tibet ever get freedom from Chinese rule?

This film attempts to answer these questions and provides a uniquely revealing historical view of this whole debate over the last 100 years.  The film is written, produced and directed by Iqbal Malhotra.

Channel: The History Channel Iberia B.V., Spain
Duration:  52 Mins
Language: English
Format: Digi Beta