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Little Buddha

Year:

1994

Duration:

123 min | Australia:141 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

Awards:

2 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: Italy

Release Date: 1994-05-25

Filming Locations: Bhutan

Earnings

Budget: $35,000,000

Opening Weekend: $873,983 (USA) (27 May 1994)

Gross: $4,858,139 (USA)€2,633,743 (Spain)

Cast

Actor

Character

Chris Isaak

Little Buddha

Keanu Reeves

Siddhartha

Ruocheng Ying

Lama Norbu (as Ying Ruocheng)

Alex Wiesendanger

Jesse Conrad

Raju Lal

Raju

Greishma Makar Singh

Gita

Sogyal Rinpoche

Kenpo Tenzin

Ven. Khyongla Rato Rinpoche

Abbot

Bridget Fonda

Lisa Conrad

Ven. Geshe Tsultim Gyelsen

Lama Dorje

Jo Champa

Maria

Jigme Kunsang

Champa

Thubtem Jampa

Punzo

Surekha Sikri

Sonali (as Surehka Sikri)

T.K. Lama

Sangay

Doma Tshomo

Ani-La

Mantu Lal

Mantu

Mountain Yogi

Rinzin Dakpa

Oracle

Rudraprasad Sengupta

King Suddhodhana

Kanika Pandey

Queen Maya

Rajeshwari Sachdev

Yasodhara (as Rajeshwaree)

Santosh Bangera

Channa

Vijay Kashyap

Vizir

Bhisham Sahni

Asita

Madhu Mathur

Prajapati

Anupam Shyam

Lord Mara

Ruchi Mathur

Queens Assistant

Rashid Mastaan

Beggar

S.S. Pandey

Old Musician

Sadiya Siddiqui

Temptation Girl (as Saddiya Siddiqui)

Tarana Ramakrishnan

Temptation Girl

Antia Thakur

Temptation Girl

Anu Chettri

Temptation Girl (as Anu Ehetri)

Kavita Hahat

Temptation Girl

Nagabab Shyam

Ascetic

Mahana Amar

Ascetic

Chitra Mandal

Ascetic (as Chritra Mandal)

Narmadapuree

Ascetic

Kumar Lingeshewer

Ascetic

Nirmala

Village Girl

Ailsa Berk

Elephant Performer

Imtiaz Amir

Siddhartha's Friend (uncredited)

Kiran Rao

Passenger (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The film is dedicated to Francis Bouygues, a French industrialist who was to produce this film before he died in 1993.

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Marlon Brando was approached about playing Siddartha.

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For the scene in the forest with the ascetics where Siddartha becomes emaciated from lack of food, Keanu Reeves went on a crash diet of oranges and water.

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Goofs

When Raju is playing with the Game Boy you can hear music from Tetris, but it's actually not turned on at all.

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Early in the movie, when Kenpo and the 3 other Tibetan monks are driving north on the top level of WA-99 the movie cuts to a separate shot of the same group now traveling north on Interstate-5 and then again south on the lower level of the WA-99 viaduct. However, as the scene continues, the group ends up atop the Queen Anne neighborhood, which is a northern part of Seattle.

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Quotes

Siddhartha: [speaking to Mara] You are pure illusion, you do not exist. The earth is my witness.

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Lama Norbu: [Narrating] One day Siddhartha heard an old musician on a passing boat speaking to his people.

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Champa: [as they observe Lama Norbu, who is old and ailing, in a state of deep meditation] Someone like Lama Norbu can remain like this for ten days. Or even more. He can sit like a mountain, serene and unmovable. And he can meditate deep and vast as ocean. And then smoothly, while doing meditation, he can enter into the state of death, with his own will.

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