--> Skip to main content


On Hollywood Movies Inspired by Hinduism

The philosophy behind a couple of super hit movies in Hollywood is based on Hinduism. Nirpal Dhaliwal looks into the plots of some of the movies that he believes is based on Vedic teachings. He gives examples of Hollywood movies like Interstellar, Matrix and Star Wars.
The idea that propels the plot of Interstellar – there is a universal super-consciousness that transcends time and space, and in which all human life is connected – has been around for about 3,000 years. It is Vedic. 
When the film’s astronaut hero, declares that the mysterious and all-knowing “they” who created a wormhole near Saturn through which he travels to save mankind – dissolving his sense of material reality in the process – are in fact “us”, he is simply repeating the central notion of the Upanishads, India’s oldest philosophical texts. These hold that individual human minds are merely brief reflections within a cosmic one. 
You can read the complete article in The Guardian