User Reviews

I am Masters of Animation Film Design student in Jaipur and I watched Rasa Yatra at the Jaipur International Film Festival in January.

In this cinematic documentary the director Param Tomanec shows his understanding of Indian spiritual culture and beyond. I really felt an attachment to the spirituality and the beauty of nature. The camera work is excellent with original combination of time-lapse photography and real-life dialogs enriching the story.

As Tomanec's directorial debut, I and many other people at the festival were pleasantly surprised at the director's attention to detail and unique rhythm of this non-linear film. Even though it is inspired by films like Koyannisqatsi and Baraka it still has an original flavour to it. It can be considered as a wonderful addition to the family of non- verbal filmmaking.

Rasa Yatra is presented as a visual meditation and I warmly recommend it to anyone with interest in art cinema, film students and spiritually inclined movie-goers.

The only criticism was that it was too short, but for a debut 50 minutes is fine. I look forward to see more film's like this in the future challenging conventional commercial film.

I am an Italian photographer, musician and writer. Rasa Yatra is an innovative way to make the viewer live places and cultures through her\his own perception. The almost complete absence of language eliminates contamination of the purity of the images and possible author biases. It also allow the watcher to be in the places shown as the attention is not diverted by narrative . In writing one of the basic rules is to maintain a proper balance between showing and telling; in visual arts telling by showing is an ultimate goal. This movie achieves this. It is also a spiritual expression of pure and objective art. I congratulate Param Tomanec for creating this unforgettable movie.