Adi Shankaracharya

The film is about the life of Sankara. Sankara is a thinker in Indian philosophy. He founded the Advaita school. Advaita means non duality. The account begins with his childhood. He loses his father at an early age. His meeting with death is staged as a scene in the film. He sets out on the road while still young. He travels the country and enters into debates. In the Himalayas he talks with a friend. It is a period when religious thought is in turmoil. Sankara builds his teaching in that setting. The film was made in Sanskrit. The telling moves slowly and with ceremony. Sarvadaman D. Banerjee and M. V. Narayanarao appear in the one hundred thirty minute film, an Indian production G. V. Iyer finished in 1983.