Rajneesh - Spiritual Terrorist! (1989)

An Australian TV Documentary from Poona, India. Quite an intelligent project, with lots of quotes of Osho's discourses relevant to the subject, the story of Osho's history, including Rajneeshpuram, what happened in America, the World Tour,

In the film, an Australian family is followed, where the husband, Matthew, has decided to go to Poona. The wife, Carol is 7 months pregnant and is against his going as "Bhagwan is very much against the nuclear family", and she needs her husband to be there.

"One of the attractions here is that spirituality can be fun."

Matthew is followed on the journey to Bombay and Poona, walking through the Commune, going to discourse, doing meditations. He is shown writing home, his wife is very worried that he will lose his head and will not come back.

Pictures of the building of Osho's new bedroom. Pictures of the library, Osho signing a book he read.

At the end, Matthew receives sannyas from Ma Prem Zareen, has a big laugh. And goes happily back to his wife and children. THE END.

VHS video cover:

"They jailed him in chains, deported him from America and said he was finished. But the controversial guru is back. And in a very big way.

From all over the world thousands of affluent and educated seekers are flocking to his ashram in Poona, India.

Producer/director Cynthia Connop and crew gained exclusive and unprecedented access to Rajneesh himself, and to the exotic private and public lifestyles that have earned him headlines around the world.

A central focus of the film is the conflict of a young Australian husband and father who leaves his pregnant wife and his son to explore what it is Rajneesh and his ashram in India have to offer.

The documentary also provides intimate portraits of some of the disciples around Rajneesh, including a young American actor, a former CIA agent, a German princess and Rajneesh's personal dentist. :Rajneesh's own origins are traced as well — from his early years and his rise to prominence in India, to his role in the much-publicised American commune that collapsed when he was deported from the USA.

Objectively and provocatively, RAJNEESH: SPIRITUAL TERRORIST! profiles one of the most enigmatic men of our time."

Osho Now News, June 1990:

In Australia, Vision Quest Films ... has told us that this month the film has been sold to television in Sweden, Denmark and Holland, with other countries seriously considering. Also the film has been signed by a video distribution company in Japan.

language: English

released: Oct 19, 1989

length: 56 min

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Vision Quest Films, P.M.B. 109/60 Blair street, North Bondi, Australia 2025

Interviewees

Devageet, Rajneesh's Dentist

Samvado, Ex-CIA Agent

Turiya, Former Princess of Hanover

Udagama

Anando, Rajneesh's Secretary

Sw Siddhartha (girlfriend Ma Salina, mother Ma Neerja)

17m 14s Shots of Osho's mother talking, with Sw Chaitanya Keerti translating

Ma Alima

Sw Prem Niren Rajneesh's Lawyer

Closing credits: Produced and Directed by Cnythia Connop; Cinematographer: Tony Wilson A.C.S.; Editor: David Lourie; Sound Recordist: Ian Wilson; Associate Producer / Narration Script: Jack Allen; Production Consultant: Gary Davis; Narrator: Ross Higgins; Production Manager: Jo Ann McGowan; Production Assistant: Wendy Chapman; Additional Research: Michael Murray; Stills Photographer: Michael Hemmings; Assistant Editor: Paula Lourie; Additional Sound: John Henry; Sound Mix: George Hart; Film Lawyer: Sally Hansen; Negative Matching: Chris Rowell Productions; Laboratory: Video Film Company

2nd Unit

Cinematographer: Steve Arnold

Sound Recordist: Leo Sullivan

Cynthia Connop, Vision Quest Films Production.

This film was made with the participation of the Australion Film Finance Corporation Pty Limited and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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