[7] Bose said he was keen to show that "the India part of the Beatles saga" was more substantial than merely the group's sojourn in Rishikesh and their studying Transcendental Meditation (TM) there under teacher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

In discussing the band's abrupt exit from the ashram, Beatles historians Mark Lewisohn and Steve Turner each highlight the disruptive role played by "Magic Alex" Mardas in spreading rumours of the Maharishi's alleged sexual impropriety towards a young female student.

"[9] The band's early influence is shown in the contemporaneous pop group the Savages and actor Shammi Kapoor dancing in a Beatles wig in the 1965 film Janwar.

Footage from the late 1980s shows Bezmenov talking with satisfaction about how he believed TM students such as actress Mia Farrow unwittingly contributed to the destabilising of American society by returning home and disseminating a message of "sit down, look at your navel and do nothing".

[13] Other artists contributing to the album include Dhruv Ghanekar, Anoushka Shankar, Soulmate, Maalavika Manoj, Shibani Dandekar, Anupam Roy, Raaga Trippin', Farhan Ahktar, Lisa Mishra, Siddharth Basrur, Parekh & Singh, Vishal Dadlani and Monica Dogra.

Hemingway describes Bose's film as "a stunning portrait not just of The Beatles but of India, too" and praises the director's insightful and measured handling of the band's association with the Maharishi.

[15] In his three-star review in The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw calls it an "engaging documentary", adding that although many of the details might be familiar, "it's still salutary to be reminded of how these four young men ... used their colossal influence, greater than any politician or movie star or religious leader, to direct the world's attention to India, a country which until then had been opaque for many in the west.

"[11] Pete Paphides of Uncut gives the film three-and-a-half stars out of five and comments that it "suspends current censoriousness to catapult us to a world where it wasn't unforgivable to get things wrong about other cultures as long as you were trying to get it right".