What Sai Wants to Give you ? – A documentary film on Sai baba of Shirdi

sairam friends,

On july 20th 2010 , i was blessed with a dream as if i am going to several temples and towns in india and see a huge gopuram of a temple. Especially i mention that i am in kumbakonam and say that the lord surya deva’s temple – suryanar kovil is only 5 kms from here.

After sometime , i had another dream where i see many sai devotees singing bhajans  and chantings in praise of sai baba.There’s a statue of shirdi sai baba in the gopuram ( temple tower ) and many sai devotees are chanting a beautiful chorus with a exciting tone

Sai…Sai….Sai…..Sai.

Sai…. Sai…Sai…Sai

Sai…Saiii…Saaiii..Saaiii

Then i hear the words ” Documentary about Sai baba ”

I woke up and opened the book about shirdi sai baba, It came to the chapter where sai advices his devotee to do parayan of the holy book Guru Charitra once again.

I took bath , did pooja to sai datta and wondered what sai meant by the dream. I always wanted to do a documentary film on sai baba of shirdi .

I was into filmmaking and film editing previously though i left all this the last few years. Its my dream to create something for Sai devotees travelling to several temples and towns listening to shirdi sai baba devotees and their love for sainath.

Now the point is, what could be the core concept of the documentary film ? Instead of creating a film that speaks about sai leela, sai temples and sai movement alone, i felt it must have a spiritual message and hence the name could be

“What Sai Wants to Give you ? ”

We have lots of desires, needs , wants and we all go to Sai to fulfill our desires. Once after 1913 , the devotees who come to sai baba , i mean the crowd increased. During this time, people troubled him telling their wants and desires . Though sai beared all this affectionate troubles and blessed his devotees, once he became too sad and said

‘People come to me asking for what they want but no one cares to get i have lots to give them ( spiritual treasure ) which no one wants to get.”

Anyway friends,

As of now i don’t have resources and money to invest in such a project .May be in years to come my dream will come true.

Sai ki jai

C.Venkatraman

20 :7 :2010