A boy leaves his village in pre-Independence North India with one question and no plan. Lakshmi Narayan has lost his mother, and he walks out to look for God, hoping God will let him see her again. The road answers him slowly, across towns and temples in the north, and the boy who walks it grows into the saint the country would come to know as Neem Karoli Baba.

Dr Vishal Chaturvedi wrote, directed and produced the film under his own banner, Swambhu Media Network, adapting his book Divine Detour: That Changed My Life. It opens a planned trilogy, and this first instalment stays with the early years. Shobhinaw Satyaa and Chandan Anand lead, with Purnima Tiwari, Vihaan Shedge, Anil Rastogi and Gulshan Pandey in support.

The register is devotional rather than dramatic. Grace shows up here as food handed to whoever is hungry, as blessings given without ceremony, as service that asks nothing back. The film counts those as its miracles and does not reach for bigger ones. Hindi-language, period-set, and made for an audience that already keeps his photograph in the house, it treats the tradition as something lived in rather than looked at.