Like many of its IMAX counterparts, there's no denying the beauty of the images on display in Mystic India, but what's really impressive is learning the lengths all involved went to in order to get them. Crammed with shots from never before photographed areas, and utilising 45,000 extras (not one of them CGI), it's not short on spectacle but then, that's the point.
Part docu-drama, part travelogue for all of the nation's positive aspects (yes, including spirituality), this latter aspect sometimes dominates the enjoyable narrative, but propaganda would be too strong a word. Being large format, it's necessarily but also noticeably aware of its time limit, and at 45 minutes, you're left wanting more detail in the story, but with narration from Peter O'Toole, for whom the cliché about reading the phone book is true, it certainly never outstays its welcome, ending as an absorbing appetiser.