Is ashram series based on asaram bapu

Prakash Jha and Bobby Deol came together for hit series Aashram on MX Player in August. Now they are back with Aashram Chapter 2 , triggering a series of hair-raising episodes. “Bhakti ya Bhrashtachar? Aastha ya Apraadh?” asks the series, where you also see several characters asking questions about the godman’s intentions. One man asks how the ‘baba’ finds “so many women”, others suspect he is “doing politics”, and a third mysteriously states “once you come to the aashram, you can never go back.” A series of suspicious crimes such as buried skeletons or women going missing, end up being linked to Baba Nirala of Kashipur (played by Aashram Chapter 2 that his true colours come to light. Sub-Inspector Ujagar Singh and Constable Sadhu are on a quest to uncover his secrets. Baba manages to become popular with the youth by getting popstar Tinka Singh on his side and also becomes coveted by the two political parties fighting elections. He also gains the blind trust of devotee Pammi (played by Aaditi Pohankar). In Aashram Chapter 2, will she find out the evil that is behind Baba’s veil of being a godman–a man who exploits young girls, is involved with the drug trade, and other dark realities? The real story of Aashram: True incidents that inspired the MX Player series The web series is fictional, yet it reminds you of the countless similar incidents reported in the news. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Dera Sacha Sauda cult leader who was convicted for rape and murder. The rape-accus...

All the accused in the 2013 rape case, involving Asaram, have been found guilty by a special SC/ST court in Jodhpur. A man of great money and muscle power, Asaram is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl from Shahajahanpur in Uttar Pradesh, who was studying at the godman's ashram at Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. Asaram started his religious discourses from a small hut in 1971 on the banks of the Sabarmati, not far away from Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram. He went on to establish over 400 ashrams in India, the US, Hong Kong, Canada and South Africa. Over the years, his followers grew in numbers quickly. Ironically, four-and-a-half decades ago, he had shot to fame by preaching about controlling sexual desire. According to Sant Asaram Bapuji ki Jeevan Jhanki, an autobiography published by his ashram, Asaram received formal education until his father's death and studied only until Class 3. In the following years, he had lived at a series of ashrams and ran away from home to an ashram in Bharuch at the age of 15. The book also talks about Lilashah, a spiritual guru, who accepted him as her disciple and named him Asaram Bapu on October 7, 1964. As his followers grew, he attracted politicians to his crowded satsangs or religious discourses. The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party governments gave Asaram land to expand his ashrams. The charges against Asaram and four other co-accused Shiva, Shilpi, Sharad and Prakash had been filed by the police on November 6, 2013. The charges under ...