Sacred subject matter notwithstanding, Maurizio Benazzo and Nick Day's entertaining film is a surprising spiritual cousin to the so-called "mondo" movies of the '60s and '70s, dubious documentaries that traveled the globe to uncover the most bizarre cultural oddities the world had to offer. Benazzo and Day's tone, however, is always respectful, even when they can't entirely disguise their own amazement. Indeed, the Hindu festival known as the Kumbh Mela is something right out of
Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Every 12 years, some 70 million people gather on the triangle of land near Allahabad, India, where the sacred waters of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers conver...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins