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CHENNAI, INDIA, November 21, 2007: Roman Catholic leaders in India have dismissed a proposed Hollywood film on Jesus Christ’s “lost years” in India as just “Hollywood makers in search of a new audience rather than the truth.” The film, “The Aquarian Gospel,” will be directed by Drew Heriot and is scheduled for release in 2009. The movie seeks to fill in Jesus’ “lost years” between 13 and 30 with a story about him as a wandering mystic who traveled across India, living in Buddhist monasteries and speaking out against the country’s caste system. The Guardian newspaper in London and The Hindu newspaper in India quoted a church spokesman dismissing the film as “fantasy and fiction,” especially in the wake of “The Da Vinci Code,” which upset many Indian Catholics. The movie takes its name from a century-old book that examined Christianity’s Eastern roots. <\/p>\n
The film’s producers say it will follow the travels of Yeshua — believed to be the name for Jesus in Aramaic — from the Middle East to India. Casting for Hollywood and Indian actors has begun. John Dayal, president of the All India Catholic Union, told the Guardian that he has “personally investigated many of these claims (about the legend of Jesus in India), and they remain what they first seem — fiction.” News report say the new film sets out to be a “fantasy action adventure account of Jesus’ life, with the three wise men as his mentors. “We think that Indian religions and Buddhism, especially with the idea of meditation, played a big part in Christ’s thinking. In the film we are looking beyond the canonized Gospels to the ‘lost’ Gospels,” said producer William Sees Keenan.<\/p>\n
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