Nine Lives

Three brothers from a remote village in the Himalayas are driven by poverty to become monks. One becomes a famous masked dancer, the second an accomplished player of the Tibetan temple trumpet, and the third a great Buddhist scholar. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. A woman leaves her middle class family in Calcutta and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a tantric in a skull- ...