For the most part, though, Ayurveda speaks in subtitled Asian cadences to an affluent international audience primed to believe.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Dave Kehr
As a believer preaching to an audience of believers, he (Nalin) feels no need to offer proofs or anything even approaching a rational argument.
A sometimes eye-opening, if overlong, German-Swiss documentary on a holistic health system that's been practiced, mostly in India, for more than 500 years.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Writer-director Pan Nalin's film is at its best when he focuses on the meticulous, hands-on preparation of herb- and mineral-based drugs; it's also genuinely provocative to hear Ayurvedists argue that healing should be a vocation rather than a career.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Ray Conlogue
Although filmmaker Pan Nalin is a believer in Ayurveda,there is little in the film to convince anybody else.