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Srila Prabhupada Coming To The Silver Screen

 

BY EX ORIENTE LUX

 

USA, Mar 5 (VNN) — HRISIKESH - The Motion Picture of Life Times

 

The extra-ordinary life story of Srila Prabhupada disciple Hrisikesa

dasa is set for the Silver Screen. The 600 page pre-production

Script is completed and Asia's Pacific Film Works (20th Century Fox)

has given the green light. The 6th Sense director M. Night Shyamalan

is under consideration to direct the movie, which will be filmed on

location using local production services in California, London,

Nepal, India, Thailand, and Bali.

 

In the movie, tentatively named Hrisikesh, His Divine Grace is a

major character. Srila Prabhupada may be played by famous Indian

actor, Amrish Puri (who looks very much like Srila Prabhupada). Ben

Kingsley may play HDG Srila Bon Maharaj. Josh Hartnett is under

consideration to play Hrisikesh. Within two years the movie may be

seen on main line cinemas around the globe. Featured in this movie

are reincarnation, Krishna consciousness, Srila Prabhupada, Srila

Bon Maharaj, Gaudiya Vaishnava Ashram life, Gaudiya siddhanta

(mostly question and answer), the subplot of tug-of-war between

Srila Prabhupada and Srila Bon Maharaj is also a feature. It is also

a Rock 'n' Roll movie about The Misunderstood, it is a fugitive -

escape movie, it is a culture shock movie, it is a war movie, and it

is a thriller!!!

 

First he gets murdered, then his adventure begins: This movie begins

in 1947 with Hrisikesh as an 80 year old sadhu getting shot during

partition riots and then reborn in America as Richard Shaw-Brown. It

features Hrisikesh as a rock 'n' roll star fugitive meeting devotees

in San Francisco (1967) and becoming a disciple of Srila Prabhupada;

it also features the philosophy of Lord Chaitanya, and the early

days of the Hare Krishna Movement, also featured will be Vrindavan,

and Mount Govardhan, and Varshana, and Nandagram, and Jaipur, and

Karoli, and Delhi, and Bombay, and swinging 60s London, the

extraordinarily great band, The Misunderstood, and it's unfair

plight and super music, and exotic Bali; also the VN draft and Boot

Camp (with Uncle Sam demonized as the Devil and Vietnam war as

hell), state of the art technology will be used to create FX

reincarnation scenes that will be a roller-coaster ride for the

viewers, Shyamasundar & Mukunda Maharaj are chief characters, as is

Srila Krishna Das Babaji; it is also a Katmandu movie, a 1967 Summer

of Love hippy movie, and an ANTI-WAR MOVIE! It is a story of East

meets West.

 

To read a synopsis click http://www.hrisikesh.net/Synopsis.htm

Richard Shaw Brown, who co-wrote the screenplay, will be a

consultant in several countries to help with the story boards and

other details of costumes, procedures, etc.

 

This is a 1st for Srila Prabhupada himself to be featured in a big

budget Hollywood movie. And on the pretext of telling Hrisikesa's

story, Lord Krishna's philosophy is revealed. Password holders are

welcome to download the entire script as a pdf.file before it goes

beyond pre-production and a line producer breaks it up into lighting

script, cameras script, sets script, costumes script, above and

below the line actors scripts, make up script, locations script,

etc. This film should be a BIG boost for Gaudiya Vaishnavism, and

help make Srila Prabhupada much more famous. Just as Mel Gibsons's

Passion is reviving so much interest in Christ, so hrisikesh can

create a global revival of Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya Siddhanta.

 

For more information visit the official site at

http://www.hrisikesh.net