David Lynch films documentary "Maharishi" in the Valley of Saints in India

David Lynch has taken a break from filming a horror movie with Werner Herzog to fly to India to work on a documentary about the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Hollywood film director became close to Maharishi – who is famous for bringing Transcendental Meditation to the West – in his later years and wishes to pay tribute to the guru who died age 91 in 2008.

In an online report from India, Lynch, garlanded with flowers, gives an intimate glimpse of the Maharishi’s house and its setting by the Ganges. Asked the name of the film, he says “Maharishi”.

In November 2009, Lynch, known for films such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive, told New York magazine, “I’m going to make a film on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It won’t be a so-called David Lynch film, really; it will be about Maharishi and the knowledge he brought out. It’ll hold a lot of abstractions. We’re on our way to India in December.”

“We’re going to do a lot of interviews with people. We’ll interview – I hope – in India, a 97-year-old man who was with Maharishi from the beginning, and get stories of times that weren’t so well recorded.”

Brief video reports on the David Lynch Foundation TV website provide a diary of his progress. His first report came from high in the Himalayas, in the small town of Uttarkashi, known as the “Valley of the Saints”, where for thousands of years seekers of truth have gathered to meditate and rise to enlightenment. Maharishi spent two years in silence in Uttarkashi, from 1953 to 1955, following the passing of his teacher, Guru Dev.

Source:
http://www.t-m.org.uk/meditation-news/2010/05/david-lynch-flies-to-india-for-new-documentary-maharishi/