By Gopal Ethiraj, Chennai
PUDUCHERRY, 31 August (asiantribune.com): Noted documentary film-maker Gunavathy Maindan’s next documentary venture “Sri Aurobindo” was inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Culture V.Narayanaswamy in Puducherry on Sunday.
The film is being made in commemoration with the centenary year of the coming of the Mahan Aurobindo to Puducherry (April 1910 to 2010). It is planned to shoot as a tri-lingual—Tamil, English and Hindi
The one-hour documentary would be shot at Puducherry, Baroda in Gujarat and Kolkatta and Darjeeling in West Bengal where the Indian Nationalist and freedom-fighter, writer, poet, philosopher and yogi had lived and worked.
Sri Aurobindo had his schooling and higher education (Cambridge) in England and returning to India his mind flowed to what he had missed of his motherland—its culture, philosophy, literature and languages. What struck him more was the nationalism. He joined the movement for India’s freedom from the British rule in 1905. The famous Alipore Bomb case in which he was implicated proved to be a turning point in his life.
He migrated to Puducherry in 1910, then under French regime, and continued his freedom struggle, possibly under the garb of spiritualism. For him spiritualism and nationalism were same as Santana Darma. While practicing both, spiritualism seemed to have overtaken him, with which he is known to the world. He was a contemporary of the nationalist poet Subramaniya Bharathi.
Puducherry stood to gain largely from his presence here for forty years, and also with his prime disciple the Divine Mother.
As the Union Minister sounded the clap-board and started the shooting of the film, the invited dignitaries hailed the writer-director Gunavathy Maindan, who has 14 documentaries to his credit. The speakers included Welfare Minister Kandaswamy, Prof. Dr. Manojdas, Prof. Dr. Murali Sivaramakkrishnan, Dr. P.Raja, Dr. Ritanath Kesari, MLA S.P.Sivakumar, Dr. K.I.Manirathinem, Chairman, Navasaksti Township Developers and Journalist Gopal Ethiraj.
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