{"id":37540,"date":"2021-10-01T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/oct\/01\/the-beatles-and-india-review-documentary"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:00:24","slug":"the-beatles-and-india-review-the-fab-four-go-looking-for-a-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37540","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles and India review \u2013 the fab four go looking for a guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefly turned the whole world on to India<\/p>\n<p>The memory of the Beatles\u2019 relationship with India is revived in this engaging documentary, and if there isn\u2019t much really new here, it\u2019s still salutary to be reminded of how these four young men \u2013 and it\u2019s amazing to remember that they were only in their 20s, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/apr\/13\/one-two-three-four-the-beatles-in-time-by-craig-brown-review\">Craig Brown\u2019s book One Two Three Four<\/a> points out \u2013 used their colossal influence, greater than any politician or movie star or religious leader, to direct the world\u2019s attention to India, a country which until then had been opaque for many in the west.<\/p>\n<p>The film amusingly notes that, before this, India had been just as crazed with western Beatlemania as anyone else, with a popular Beatles-style band called the Savages, and Shammi Kapoor bopping around wearing a Beatles wig in Bhappi Sonie\u2019s 1965 film Janwar. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/oct\/01\/the-beatles-and-india-review-documentary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This engaging music doc recounts the time the band enjoyed a spiritual summer of love in Rishikesh, and briefly turned the whole world on to IndiaThe memory of the Beatles\u2019 relationship with India is revived in this engaging documentary, and if there i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":863,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,707,69,62,425,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-documentary-films","category-film","category-india","category-music","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/863"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37541,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37540\/revisions\/37541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}