O Parvardigar (Restored & Extended)

O Parvardigar
Directed by	Ginny Katz
Starring	Meher Baba
Distributed by	The Meher Baba Association The Meher Baba Film Archive Eel Pie Publishing
Release date(s)	1976 (United Kingdom) 2003 2009
Running time	65 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

O Parvardigar (Restored & Extended) is a restoration of Ginny Katz's 1976 film presenting Meher Baba and his prayer "O Parvardigar." Earlier editions of the film had issues with speed of the Meher Baba footage, and the restoration by Richard O'Casey addressed this problem so that it could be viewed as originally intended. The thirty-two year-old stereo recordings were remastered into 5.1 digital sound and PCM audio, and new footage of Meher Baba was added.

The restored and extended film was released as an all-region DVD (PAL and NTSC) which plays for sixty-five minutes and contains five video tracks, including the restored version and the original version, plus visuals on the restoration process. It also features four audio tracks, including Pete Townshend singing "O Parvardigar" and previously unreleased versions of Townshend performing "Bargain" and "Time Is Passing" live in India at Meher Baba's third Amartithi in January 1972.

Other inclusions are sheet music, production shot logs, technical notes on the film restoration, a photo album, printable pdf files and a new article on the prayer by Pete Townshend.^[1]

The new restoration commemorates fifty years of Avatar Meher Baba's Universal Prayer. It was premiered at Meher Baba Oceanic on July 20, 2003, with an audience including Meher Baba's oldest surviving disciple and Avatar Meher Baba Trust chairman Bhau Kalchuri. This was the first Baba event held at Meher Baba Oceanic for twenty-two years.

In 2009 the film was re-released with special features including two earlier versions of the film, accompanying articles, including Townshend's account of the creation of the song, production notes, photographs, technical restoration information, and twenty minutes of exclusive audio of Pete Townshend talking and playing at the Third Amartithi.^[2]

References

1. ^ The Meher Baba Association
2. ^ Meher Baba Film Archive