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Gurukulam

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Teachers and students confront questions about the nature of reality and self identity in a remote forest in southern India.
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G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle 06/16/2016
2/4
A film that seems as if the directors stayed about four days, shot what they could and left ... Go to Full Review Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter 06/15/2016
By the time the film ends, you'll certainly have the feeling of what it must be like to experience life in this bucolic spiritual retreat. Unfortunately, you'll also feel like you've been there for the full five weeks. Go to Full Review Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times 06/09/2016
For a movie seemingly concerned with clarity and enlightenment, it's woefully lacking in both. Go to Full Review Tricia Olszewski Washington City Paper 01/02/2017
Redundancy is key to absorbing many Hindu teachings, mind you, but we don't need to repeatedly watch people chow down or get dressed or avoid cows in the road. Go to Full Review Richard von Busack MetroActive 12/31/2016
Ultimately besotted with the subject, the camera grows passive, encouraging the hierarchal approach to enlightenment, and the kind of wishful thinking that tries to pray away elephants. Go to Full Review Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune 07/15/2016
3/4
Whether you find the documentary Gurukulam meditative or just boring will likely depend on how you feel about the Indian guru at its center, so you get out of the movie only what you take with you. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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06/13/2016 There arent enough movies like this that reflect to humanity its present spiritual condition and the hope of moving upward on the evolutionary spiral. See more Read all reviews
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Neil Dalal

Director

Jillian Elizabeth

Director

Dayananda Saraswati

Self

Jillian Elizabeth

Producer

J.P. Sniadecki

Cinematographer

Mary Lampson

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Movie Info

Synopsis Teachers and students confront questions about the nature of reality and self identity in a remote forest in southern India.
Director
Neil Dalal, Jillian Elizabeth
Producer
Jillian Elizabeth
Distributor
Matson Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 3, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 1, 2016
Runtime
1h 48m
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