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Indian film epic to portray St. Thomas the apostle July 04, 2008
More than 25,000 Indian Catholics attended the formal launch of an epic movie project on the life of St. Thomas the Apostle on July 3, the apostle's feast day, at the Santhome Cathedral in Chennai where St. Thomas was buried.
Archbishop Malayappan Chinnappa of Madras was among those attending the event introducting the film projects, as was M. Karunanidhi, the chief minister of the Tamil Nadu state government.
Father Paul Raj Lourdusamy, director of the venture, told CWN that the movie is being sponsored by the Madras archdiocese, with Vatican support, on a comparatively modest budget of $12 million. The feature movie, he said, will be on the model of the epic Ten Commandments. The film is to be made over a period of two years, with shootings in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala where the Apostle landed in the year 52, sowing the seeds of Christianity in India.
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