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Blood Buddhas

‘Blood Buddhas’ traces the secret labyrinth of the global heritage mafia, the indigenous communities whose “Gods” are stolen, and it’s linkages to terror-funding in and around India

  • Nikhil Singh Rajputt
    Director
    Himalayan Refugee
  • VideoBanao
    Producer
  • Dr Shashi Tharoor
    Key Cast
  • Dr Subramanian Swamy
    Key Cast
  • Anuraag Saxena
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Antiquity, Politics, Religion, Art
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 12 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 11, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    India
  • Language:
    English, Hindi
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Arth Cultural Fest
    New Delhi
    India
    India Premiere
Director Biography - Nikhil Singh Rajputt

Nikhil Singh Rajputt is an award-winning Documentary Filmmaker, his documentary ‘Himalayan Refugee’ traced the lives of Ahmadi Muslim refugees in Nepal. This is his second film

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Director Statement

‘Blood Buddhas’ traces the secret labyrinth of the global heritage mafia, the indigenous communities whose “Gods” are stolen, and it’s linkages to terror-funding in and around India vis a vis in Kashmir and Sri Lanka.

Many stolen/smuggled Indian Antiquities have found their way to museums across the western world.

The documentary follows a small group of volunteers who track these stolen antiquities and inform the Museums as well as the Indian Government. In the last few years few museums have returned the stolen antiquities to India and some are in the process of doing it. This documentary is a self funded effort aimed at both protecting indigenous culture and raising awareness to discourage the patrons of smuggled antiquities and is shot in India, Singapore, UK and US.