A spiritual guru’s curious journey to becoming the first Indian filmmaker in the US
Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar’s eventful life was marked by reinvention, intermittent success and scandal. AK Mozumdar and Kathryn McGuire | A clipping from The San Francisco Examiner, June 19, 1924.
Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar was an unusual yogi. A slender man with a piercing gaze, who often dressed in robes, Mozumdar did not practice magical tricks, nor did he spout ancient eastern wisdom as other yogis and gurus of the time did. Instead, as Frederick Lieb, a popular journalist of the time, wrote, he “healed people with the cosmic rays generated by a mere touch of his fingers”.