Mystic India

I recently watched Mystic India , now playing in the IMAX theatres. It is supposed to be a story about a boy named Neel-Kanth, who at an age of eleven sets out on a journey of "awakening". To quote from the movie synopsis:

Neelkanth's footprints begin to map the length and breadth of India - its dense jungles, fertile plains, majestic mountains, mighty rivers, and peaceful coastlines. Flourishing for more than 8,000 years, this land has been home to an ancient and highly advanced civilization. Neelkanth's walk would last for 7 years, 12,000 kilometers, covering every corner of India.

The first few minutes of the movie were quite good, where the narrator educates you about India. (Read, the ego swells up, and you feel pride, and pleased). However, the movie starts becoming boring, when instead of describing the life of Neel-Kanth, the narration repetitively tries to educate you upon India, where you are shown scenic shots of the land, temples, fortresses, festivals, some unintentional but hard-hitting sentences like "a country of a billion people".

Totally for the western audience I think, but parts of it feel good anyways. Some of the photography, like that of himalayas, is spectacular. The background score is decent at times, otherwise unremarkable. The characters, are unimportant, shadowed by the india-education part.

One tale I remembered in it was, when during Neel-Kanth's stay in a village, the villagers advise him to take refuge in the temple at night, to be protected from a certain death from the a jungle terror that haunts the village: a lion. To that, neel-kanth says "Tell me, are the walls of your temple protected from death ? Can you guarantee that death will not enter this temple ?"