Hi all,
also had the luck to watch it in a theater in my city last sunday! 
Liked the atmosphere the movie created very much. Especially the meeting with Yukteswar was always magical and energetically intensely perceivable! Also very interesting was the glassy eyes of Yogananda, most probably when entering into Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Never saw that picture on the net before.
What was missing is:
- his encounters with all the amazingly great masters including the life stories of Lahiri Mahasaya and others
- the movie lost a lot of potential by not visualizing Yogananda’s first entry into savikalpa samadhi + nirvikalpa samadhi by the help of his guru
- the kriya yoga practitioner connection has not become visible as it is happening in the book
- nearly all magical happenings of the book were missing
There is potential to create a very long movie or even a series season with several episodes. Still some good vibe was coming through, Yogananda’s state in different pictures was clearly perceivable and very nice.
Some side notes to the happening here:
The theater was not a main one for holliwood movies, but only for altenative and less known movies. A lot of kriya friends had gathered to see the movie (from different lineages) and quite a long queue was there. Some minutes before the begining me and two friends were coming to the theater, seeing the queue we were lucky to see others already close to the ticket seller. Taking the movement I directly jumped to them, getting 5 more tickets for others. A lady behind me said, hey, “if you get the last tickets, they are for me!”. “Don’t worry, I’ll look for you to get your tickets” was the reply here. After getting the tickets, the seller announced, that everything is sold out and the other 50+ people still waiting were shocked
Somehow we lost track of that lady and went into the movie room. The sister of Mangalananda was already sitting there, greeting me and others. Somehow it became clear, that more people got a ticket than seats were available. Me and a friend thought, no problem, the stairs will do the job
The ads started and suddenly a security man came in and said, “you can’t sit on the stairs” and asked us to come out. I thought, ok something is not fine with this (lady karma still open :P). Then suddenly the man changed his serious face and blinked with one eye and told me, “please don’t tell, I will open a new movie room for you ;)” Surprised and happily we came back to the entrance of the cinema and saw an even bigger group. By grace or profit reasons (or both :P) another movie has been canceled and that room was now opened for a second in parallel Awake stream 
And that room was much bigger and nicer aswell. Directly taking seat in the best seats, we were watching the different folks of the city having interest in our dear Yogananda. Age-wise all were a little or a lot older than us (especially my friend is always hopefully looking for younger kriya yoginis ;)), but what to do, Yogananda’s message is several decades old aswell
Sitting there suddenly I perceived Mangalananda’s sister, having her attention on that room, although she was in the first room. And then an immense absorption started to dawn upon me, filling the whole space. The last 1-2 years I had already observed the fast progress of this woman, but again was suprised how intensly she could go into samadhi and melt the whole cinema into silent presence.
Then watching the movie it was said, that Yogananda had several talks in the public and mostly they were overly crowded and filled with twice the capacity or more of the places. Even after his maha samadhi it seems like nothing has changed. Yogananda comes to the cinemas and they are fuller than full just to see him and hear his voice!
With this greetings to the timeless masters,
thank you for all the inspiritation
and happy & loving practice to all!
