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Shakti: When mythology meets science
Updated On: 11 August, 2013 09:33 AM IST | | Moeena Halim
Filmmaker Supriti Malhotra's documentary delves into Hinduism's concept of Shakti as a sacred cosmic force or energy and links it with Hubble's law of the expanding universe
The very same year that Hubble discovered that the world was expanding, another scholar wrote about Shaktism, describing Shakti as being the most concentrated form of energy,” begins documentary filmmaker Supriti Malhotra, who is exploring the concept of Shakti through her feature-length documentary film Shakti: of Science and Traditions. Malhotra, whose previous short film won the 48 Hour Film Project award, intends to cover every aspect of Shakti in her latest -- from the similarities between the mythological concepts of Shakti and more modern scientific theories, as well as the hypocrisies contradictions surrounding the followers of the Mother Goddess across the country.

Malhotra hopes to portray the thought-provoking similarities she found between science and Shaktismu00a0
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