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July 4, 2008
Kolkata filmmaker traces Christ’s ‘India trail’
“According to Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic scriptures and beliefs,
Christ visited India during the period of his missing years in the
Bible and stayed in the country for 14 years.
“His Christianity was influenced by Hinduism as we find that the New
Testament of the Bible was more akin to Hinduism than Judaism.
“In Bhavishya Maha Puran, a text dating back to the second century
AD, there are references of Christ’s interaction with King
Shalivahan, the grandson of Vikramaditya, in Kashmir.
“Scholars say it happened after Christ’s resurrection, ” said Mitra.
He also noted that there were different isolated pockets that
corroborated the “alternative theory” about Christ.
This alternative theory was strengthened after some scrolls (dating
back to between 200 BC and 100 AD) were discovered in 1947 in a group
of caves near Khirbat Qumran in Jordan at the northwestern end of the
Dead Sea.
Two years before that, in 1945, some scrolls dating back to 350 AD
were found tucked into a large jar at Nag Hammadi village in upper
Egypt.
Mitra’s film, produced by Atanu Roy of Sweet Melody, seeks to unearth
the truth through the discourses of an archaeologist (played by
Soumitra Chatterjee) and a novelist (Aparna Sen).
“We have shot in Ladakh, Kashmir, the Silk Route, Kerala, Varanasi
and Puri for the film - following the trail of Christ,” said Mitra.
“There are many documents in the vault of the Vatican and the church
doesn’t publish them because they obviously want to project Christ as
a god and not as a human.
“Assimilation of all such stories raises the question why there was
no proper research on the alternative theory about Christ,” said
Mitra.
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July 4, 2008
Kolkata filmmaker traces Christ’s ‘India trail’
“According to Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic scriptures and beliefs,
Christ visited India during the period of his missing years in the
Bible and stayed in the country for 14 years.
“His Christianity was influenced by Hinduism as we find that the New
Testament of the Bible was more akin to Hinduism than Judaism.
“In Bhavishya Maha Puran, a text dating back to the second century
AD, there are references of Christ’s interaction with King
Shalivahan, the grandson of Vikramaditya, in Kashmir.
“Scholars say it happened after Christ’s resurrection, ” said Mitra.
He also noted that there were different isolated pockets that
corroborated the “alternative theory” about Christ.
This alternative theory was strengthened after some scrolls (dating
back to between 200 BC and 100 AD) were discovered in 1947 in a group
of caves near Khirbat Qumran in Jordan at the northwestern end of the
Dead Sea.
Two years before that, in 1945, some scrolls dating back to 350 AD
were found tucked into a large jar at Nag Hammadi village in upper
Egypt.
Mitra’s film, produced by Atanu Roy of Sweet Melody, seeks to unearth
the truth through the discourses of an archaeologist (played by
Soumitra Chatterjee) and a novelist (Aparna Sen).
“We have shot in Ladakh, Kashmir, the Silk Route, Kerala, Varanasi
and Puri for the film - following the trail of Christ,” said Mitra.
“There are many documents in the vault of the Vatican and the church
doesn’t publish them because they obviously want to project Christ as
a god and not as a human.
“Assimilation of all such stories raises the question why there was
no proper research on the alternative theory about Christ,” said
Mitra.
sahajapower.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/kolkata-filmmaker-traces-christs-india-trail/
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