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Bishar Blues

BISHAR BLUES

Directed by Amitabh Chakraborty
India, 2006
Documentary

Synopsis

Bishar Blues travels across the West Bengal countryside on the trail of the Islamic fakir who walks the path of Marfat. In Islam the Shariat laws organize the physical world, ethics; the Marfat is the hidden knowledge, and the goal is to free oneself from the physical, the ascetic way.

Synopsis

Bishar Blues travels across the West Bengal countryside on the trail of the Islamic fakir who walks the path of Marfat. In Islam the Shariat laws organize the physical world, ethics; the Marfat is the hidden knowledge, and the goal is to free oneself from the physical, the ascetic way.