Panaji, Nov. 19 -- Filmmaker Girish Malik's latest docu-drama, 'Mahamantra - The Great Chant', is set to premiere at the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI 2025) as a Special Showcase, marking one of the festival's most anticipated screenings of the year.

The 75-minute English-language film is Malik's most urgent and spiritually charged work yet, conceived over years marked by global pandemics, wars, climate anxiety, and social upheaval, as a cinematic response to a world searching for meaning, balance, and awakening.

The director, known for his visually immersive storytelling, blends mythology, history, science, sound, movement, and symbolism into a singular narrative that urges collective resilience and higher consciousne...