John Griesser, who has directed the docu-drama Hare Krishna, which is based on Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, opened up about the challenges faced while making the docu-drama in a candid interview.
Talking about the challenges faced, Griesser said, “The biggest challenge was how to distil down into 90 minutes the mass of material we had to work with: 31 hours of archival films of Prabhupada and his Movement and 1800 hours of audio of him speaking. In addition, we shot over 40 interviews totaling over 100 hours of video and also had to piece together archival films from dozens of sources to recreate the times and events in strife torn America in the 1960’s and 70’s. In addition, since we were portraying Prabhupada’s entire life, we needed reenactments of different periods of his life. For the first two years we were juggling the material, shifting it here and there, oftentimes overwhelmed with the magnitude of it all.”
Presented by Rohit Shetty of Aurous Entertainment, Hare Krishna is slated to release this weekend.
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