Movie Review: ‘Faith Connections,’ About the Hindu Festival Kumbh Mela
THE NEW YORK TIMES
HOLLYWOOD---Pan Nalin’s “Faith Connections” is not the first documentary to take a camera on a pilgrimage to the Kumbh Mela festival in India. Mr. Nalin applies an on-the-ground approach, mainly looking at holy men and lost boys at the gathering. Described as lasting 55 days and drawing up to 100 million people last year, Kumbh Mela is awe-inspiring. But the organic nature and hard-to-fathom scale of Kumbh Mela demand a more systematic strategy. [link]
By Nicholas Rapold
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| A holy man who finds himself raising a little boy left on his doorstep in “Faith Connections.” Credit Alive Mind Cinema |
