Movies: Opa, Mother Teresa and Me.

0:00 Speaker 1 Well with us today is a theory Casunut and he is a film producer, a very famous film producer, and I had the privilege being with him a couple of weeks ago at the grand opening at the United Nations of the opening of the Mother Teresa film, which I thoroughly enjoyed and it really opens up our eyes and

0:23 what people can do. Good morning, Theory, how are you.

0:29 Speaker 2 Thanks for having me.

0:32 Speaker 1 Tell us about why he did this Mother Teresa film? And it was a beautiful film and exemplifies her work, how a poor person from the middle of nowhere can rise up and do so much good in the world. Yes.

0:53 Speaker 2 Well, the idea for the movie, or the inspiration came from the actress who eventually played it, Jacquie and Fritzchee Corna. And she was in India for the first time and she saw these kids on the street in extreme poverty, and she was so sure that she thought she had to do something. And a few days later she was

1:13 in the producer’s office in Bollywood and she saw a big painting of Mother Teresa and then she had these inspiration. So that’s it, that’s what we have to do. We have to make a movie about Mother Teresa inspired the world by what she’s done and inspire people to do small acts of kindness everywhere and thus create a better world.

1:36 You know, small daughter of kindness. You know, when you smile to someone, you help them cross the street to buy the groceries, you recognize them in their human dignity, and just that is enormous and changes the world. So that really was the inspiration for making this movie.

1:53 Speaker 1 And now you have a great film. And I understand it’s opening up in New York soon.

2:00 Speaker 2 Yeah, it’s it’s opening actually nationwide on October fifth, with fatim Event distributing it. And it’s a one night only event, so like the concert coming to your town. So people have to get on board and and go see it and buy pre buy ticket because if the cinema sees that there’s a demand for it, well they’ll add showtime,

2:26 they add days. But but you cannot just show up on game day. You have to pre buy, so the cinemas get the feeling that’s something going on. And you can do that at satam event dot com, slash event slash Mother hyphened, Teresa, hyphen and hyphen me. You know the name of the movie, Mother Teresa and me.

2:52 Speaker 1 With all those hyphens, nobody will be able to find it. Simplify.

2:59 Speaker 2 Are very Americans are very smart, But that’s the way it is. They could also google fat and event mother Teresa and they’ll get right on it.

3:07 Speaker 1 Yes, okay, So you type in mother Teresa on it, Mother Teresa film on Google and you can probably find it.

3:16 Speaker 2 Yeah, and you can type in Then when you’re on the website, you type in your zip code. You type in your city, and you’ll get immediately the theaters near you, the closest to you, and it’s playing eight hundred plus cinemas in nationwide, forty one cinemas in the New York and New Jersey area.

3:35 Speaker 1 Understood anything else you want to tell people? Because I enjoyed it and it really gives a vision how a person again from nowhere could rise up and do so much good in the world.

3:53 Speaker 2 Well, what we did, you know, we wanted to show the human being, you know, the the woman behind the scene, behind the superhero, Mother Teresa, because you know, until she passed away, you know, she was the superhero and we were like in awe. And when she died, they discovered the letters that she was writing to her confessors where

4:17 she expressed, you know, this terrible crisis of faith or this dark night of the soul as they call it, where she felt completely abandoned by Jesus for many, many, many years. And we wanted to show that person because it makes her so much more relatable, you know, because once you realize how she fought every day, you know,

4:39 despite her this sense of abandonment, and she went to find Jesus in the pores of the poor. She kept on the mission, she kept on fighting, she kept inspiring you know, lots of none today, the five thousands, she still inspires people. And you realize, you know that she you know, today a lot of people have this mentality

5:03 of victims, you know, and you can’t do anything about your life or you’re just you know, go in your corner and sob. But you know, she picked herself up every day and kept on fighting. And that’s what’s absolutely great, and that’s why she’s an inspiration also today. And we have this end me you know, in the movie, and

5:23 that’s you know, as you know, it’s it’s this young woman Cavita, who lives today in She’s of Indian descent, lived in London and she finds herself pregnant and she’s abandoned by her books, and she leaves for Calcutta to see her old nanny interest where she’s from, and through the nanny who works with the missionaries of charity, she

5:45 discovered Mother Teresa. She reads the letters and she finds out, Oh Jesus, was you know has abandoned Mother Teresa. She said, well, I’m a bandage. So she developed a kinship with Mother Teresa, and that’s how we get into the Mother Teresa story to the eye of this young woman. And then she starts working in the House of the Dying, taking care

6:04 of an old lady who’s dying, and she goes to the orphanages and she starts taking care of other people, and through helping other she helps herself and she picks herself up and she finds positivity in her life. So that’s really fary.

6:17 Speaker 1 Thank you so much. I’ll be watching it. I’ll be I’m going to go to the theater near me and the New York It opens up the New York theaters in October fifth and also nationwide, and I urge everybody to go see it. And thank you so much for doing it. And we’ll catch up again, Wilso.

6:36 Speaker 2 Thank you John So. It’s fatimievents dot com. Thank you so much, John for having me