The film was first screened at Cannes Film Festival in April and has recently got a 'best film' rating.
After the world premier of the new 90-minute documentary, ‘In The Beginning There Was Light’ featuring octogenarian hermit Prahlad Jani, aka Mataji who claims to be living without food and water for the past seven decades — on September 9 in Vienna, Austria that received a tremendous positive response from western audiences, groups of scientists and doctors from Austria and Germany have offered to put Jani under medical screening once again to assess his claims.
The film was first screened at Cannes Film Festival in April and has recently got a 'best film' rating.
The hermit was put under tight medical surveillance at the Sterling Hospital here this April, after first being checked in 2003 for the same reason.
A team of scientists from the Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), doctors from Sterling Hospital and personnel from SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), had conducted a series of tests on him and had kept the hermit under 24-hour CCTV camera observation. In July, DIPAS had endorsed the hermit's claims.
Dr. Sudhir Shah, neurologist and head of special studies at Sterling Hospital, who last week attended the premiere of the documentary film in Austria as a guest of honour, said, “The western audiences were amazed to watch this documentary that was directed by PA Straubinger.
After the screening, we have got offers from scientists from Austria and Germany to come to the city and conduct detailed research medical investigations on Jani. Scientists from the US too have offered to come and join the research.”
When DNA contacted Jani for his response to the development, he said, “I would certainly co-operate in further investigations.”
Dr Shah, who also a member of the cast in the film, said, “It is my strong conviction that further research on this phenomenon and the energy that helps Jani to sustain is going to change the direction of science and would tremendously benefit mankind.”
The new documentary will also be shown in major movie cinemas globally in September. Filmed over a six-year period, the documentary shows the quantum aspects of living on prana (force of life) and has many detailed interviews with luminaries from the scientific world.
“The movie will be released on September 17 in many mainstream European cinemas,” says Shah.
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