Rebellious Flower

My review isn't of too much significance as I don't know that much about Osho. What I read showed that he was a very special man even if one doesn't look at it from spiritual perspective.

The movie is going through his younger years and how it went to his enlightenment.

I especially liked the part of him being a child. It was very well done, some great scenes and Prince Shah is a very charismatic child who did a great job portraying the rebellious nature and thirst for knowledge.

After the movie started losing me a bit. Maybe it is due to me not being spiritual myself it was harder to connect.

Yet the movie is pretty enjoyable. And the beautiful scenery of the nature and the small village where he was born were also a good addition.

I have watched it in 2016 with osho's lovers. It was lovely experience to watch osho's childhood in cinema hall. I request to all of you to watch it at least once.

"the map is not the territory'' - general semantics.

All spiritual pointers point beyond themselves, they are maps. All maps point to the territory.

In this case the territory is 'enlightenment/moksha/nirvana/self-realization/no-self,anatta/' whatever you want to call it.

''the word is not the thing'' as OSHO once quoted the general semantic song in 'Nirvana : The Last Nightmare'.

This movie has some extraordinarily striking spiritual pointers. I'm not sure many people will understand it, it is indeed very rare to understand Zen.

I've never written a review, probably will never write a review all my life.

But if you're a spiritual practitioner, or a 'sannyasin', you will understand the movie. OSHO once said 'by Sannyas I mean TOTAL SURRENDER'. So a sannyasin simply means one who surrenders, who says YES to the present moment.

If you're familiar with Eckhart Tolle's teachings, this movie will show you the ''GRACE'' OSHO experiences as a child, his 'crucifixion',metaphorically speaking, in the form of adversities or calamities he faced, but they are calamities or adversities only on the surface, go a little deeper and you will understand they are 'Grace'. Out of the suffering arises Surrender.

And through surrender one goes beyond the form, one is transformed. TRANCE-FORM. Transcending form. And knows oneself as the formless.

OSHO continuously had his sannyasins 'on the cross', for their 'growth'. growth happens through surrender.

Sannyas is total surrender.

This movie points to the obvious : surrender.

So there are 2 significant things in the movie : Surrender, and spiritual pointers or Signposts of enlightenment. the spiritual pointers are extraordinary.

Particularly one in which he drinks out of an empty cup. Drinking emptiness.

"space consciousness'' as Eckhart Tolle would say. Consciousness of the UNMANIFESTED dimension. remarkable. This was VERY POWERFUL. There are a few more very powerful pointers.

OSHO is invaluable to the spiritual awakening of humanity. Without him I would have had no chance.

By Swami Anand Kul Bhushan

Slow down. Press the 'pause' button of your non-stop mind when you start watching the new movie, Rebellious Flower, portraying the early years of the mystic master, Osho. Here is the unhurried, rustic and realistic depiction of the small village in Madhya Pradesh where he was born and grew up with his grandmother in a nearby village. No sets needed to be put up as the movie has been shot on real locations that are still almost the same as 60 years ago. The outdoor scenes send you to the clean and crisp air and vast horizons.

How did Osho become the master of masters? Here is the answer based on his early life as an inquisitive and fearless child, a voracious reader and a seeker. As a chubby prodigy, Prince Shah, plays the part charmingly; then Shashank Singh takes over as a teenager. The resemblance to young Osho is incredible, especially the enigmatic eyes.

His grandmother, played by Kirti Adarkar had a crucial role in his formative years by encouraging his prickly questions and supporting his quest. He was greatly influenced by three mystics, all of them played faultlessly by Mantra.

The real challenge is to show how and when Osho gets enlightened on 21 March 1953. Very sensitively crafted, these scenes stay clear from showing a new glow around him with thundering music. Instead, it is very silent and plays with light. No histrionics here. Producer Swami Jagdish Bharti who wrote the script gave full freedom to director Ashok Hooda to present this true life story without any halo. Overall, this is a meditative movie that sincerely presents the childhood of an enlightened master. If you are looking for action, scandal and sensation, it is not for you. But if you want to break away from the mad, mad world for two hours and become meditative, go watch it.

This movie is probably made by no more than high school students. It is such a shame that for such a charismatic and enlightened person, this is what the movie makers could deliver. Very poorly made with no depth., no flavor of what Osho's flavor. It is abrupt with individual scenes without any connectivity, or sense of timing or authenticity. The creators hardly did any research on Osho's early life and underlying spiritual theme which ran in his life. I am waiting for a real Director and set of actors to create Osho's life story. I wonder if a talented director would find courage to make a movie on Osho, with sufficient professional input.