feature-films - Laburnum Productions

The story of Vivesini

Shakthi takes up her rationalist father’s mission – trekking in a forest widely believed to be haunted to debunk local claims. But after she witnesses a series of inexplicable events in the forest, she isn’t so sure there’s a rational explanation…

A mystified Shakthi seeks explanations for the ghosts that haunt both the forest and her mind.

With her friends Alice (from London), and Charles (from New York), they unite with a centuries-old spirit from the renaissance to probe the forest’s secrets and unravel its mystery – and accidentally trigger a social awakening.

Vivesini meets The Freethinker

Emma Park (editor of The Freethinker) and Bhavan with an article about The Thinker and Tattuva Vivesini

Emma Park with Bhavan Rajagopalan in conversation with the audience at the screening of Vivesini

The Conway Hall – a historic seat of secularist, rationalist, ethical and humanist reform.

Bob, Stephen, and Bhavan with ‘The First copy’ of the Freethinker

With Bob Forder and Stephen Evans of the National Secular Society in London

The Brookwood Cemetery. Visiting the grave of rationalist Charles Bradlaugh with Bob Forder

“Above all, I want [my viewers] to be persuaded of the importance of rational thinking and free thought, the value of standing against oppression in any form, and the importance of welcoming progressive ideas that can liberate humanity from the restrictions of narrow religious worldviews.”

– Bhavan Rajagopalan, Director