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| The Tantra teaches us how to transcend our circumstances. Chantal Sharma captured this ethereal process in film. | | Date Created: Jun 11, 2005, 04:04 PM |
 Journalist Chantal Sharma has created a movie about the aesthetic culture of Hinduism in India, based on Sharma's years of research and to be released soon as a multi-platform experience, including an animated feature film, a game and a mobile phone presence. She says the story is about the idea that God is a woman - and exploring that themes creates an exotic and treacherous journey for its hero.
Chantal made a transition from computer-bound sub-editor on a metropolitan newspaper to real-life adventurer for the film. She visited spirital mystics and visionaries in South and North India, to bring the secret aesthetic culture of India's oral traditions (handed on by ascetics, sharmans, hermits and recluses) into the project.
Sharma learned various languages and was guided by some of India's most respected gurus. Finally she ventured high into the mist-shrouded mountains, way above the Ganges, to find a blessing for the project from the nation's spiritual leaders. The work now teaches us to transcend our challenges, she says, and how to balance the male and female principles that exist within us all.
Quicktime for Mac users here
Flash Video for Windows PC users here
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