In December 2011, the band did a 20-day workshop with the inmates of Tihar Jail - South Asia's largest complex of prisons - and helped them form a band called The Flying Souls which later performed inside Tihar Jail.
In the court case that followed, where he was represented by the leading British attorney Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, he was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail.
The Dhamma Brothers has been compared with another documentary, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (released in 1997), which documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format.
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Doing Time, Doing Vipassana released in 1997 documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates.
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is gearing up to work on a second biopic – “End of Bandit Queen” – based on the life of Sher Singh Rana.Sher Singh Rana is currently lodged at Delhi’s Tihar Jail, and Nawazzudin says he will meet him soon.