27/05/2025
Cinema for the Soul 📽️🧞♂️
Regarding the motion picture, it is a great opportunity, and if they actually want to do something wonderful I can come there personally and see to its direction. If it is an important film I think my personal direction is necessary. We can give them hundreds of stories from Bhagavat which will make wonderful films, and simultaneously the people will be educated to the proper religious and moral standard. So please try very seriously for this and I think Krishna will give you all intelligence and facility.
Letter to Syamasundara — Los Angeles, 22 September, 1970
Prabhupada gave us an instruction that he wanted a movie made of the Bhagavad-gita including battle scenes of the Mahabharat and elephants. He spent the whole session telling us how the movie should be made. Prabhupada said when the time comes he would direct it, and I never quite understood what he meant by that, maybe through Supersoul or whether he would do it personally. But he did speak at length about it. But he was very serious, and we took that instruction very seriously for some time.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Nayan Abhirama Dasa
