On Oct 31, 2009 in Sridham Mayapur at Srila Prabhupada’s Samadhi Auditorium a new documentary film series by Vasudeva dasa titled “NO SUFFERING ON SAFARI, The Bangladesh Experience” was premiered. This film follows a 2008 ISKCON preaching tour and pilgrimage to various towns and Vaishnava holy places in Bangladesh. The additional significance of the event was that it is the first new film released by BhakTV Productions in sixteen years.

The Premiere was well attended. It was presented by Vasudeva das, a resident of Mayapur from France,who created BhakTV twenty years ago, and became known for a series of documentaries he produced in the 1980s on India’s holy places and festivals. These films have since been distributed worldwide by ISKCON , notably the popular TIMELESS VILLAGE OF THE HIMALAYS. 

This current release is the first of a three part series. It focuses on North-East Bangladesh, which includes footage of ISKCON’s Sylhet temple, Srivas Angan, Madhava Kund, Kulaura Farm, and the Comilla pandal program. The second release is scheduled to be edited by the Gaura Punima festival of 2010. It will focus on the Vaisnava tirthas of South-East Bangladesh, namely the birthplaces and bhajan kutirs of the famous brothers Munkunda and Vasudeva Datta, and of Pundarika Dham near Chittagong, which has now developed into a major ISKCON center in Bangladesh. Finally, the third release will take us on a boat cruise to the Jungles of Sunderband, home to the famed Royal Tiger of Bengal, and to the Sri Sri Rupa-Sanatana Goswami’s birthplaces near Jessore, also a major ISKCON complex.

Author: Gita Nagari das, Sridham Mayapur

- NO SUFFERING ON SAFARI -PART ONE, can now be ordered as a fully packaged high-definition DVD from:

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