The film is abstract in its form, a meandering observation of disparate lives, threaded together by an ephemeral connection with the Wild Yogi. Tikaram Yogi, 24, born into the lowest caste in Nepal, grew up in an impoverished family of six siblings and a single mother. Tikaram faced incredible challenges due to caste discrimination, poverty, and severe mental illness, during the majority of his adult life. Tikaram’s metamorphosis into a wild yogi, can be seen in his relentless pursuit to return to a natural life, sleeping outside on a mountaintop, eating primarily fruit, and practicing yoga for several hours a day. The documentary serves as Tikaram's eyes, viewing the faces of children studying at his old grade school, a tantric practitioner healing a sick child, and bodies waiting to be incinerated on sandalwood pyres. Tikaram has found within himself an endless ocean of gratitude and devotion for the world around him. Nepal's rich culture and enduring spiritual practices, as captured in the film, will open the hearts and minds of an audience to a world they would otherwise not have access to. A tantric adorning bones and brass bells, shaking, chanting, and beating an animal hide drum from sunset until sunrise. While filming in remote areas of Nepal, we were told that the local practices had never been captured on a cinema camera or shared outside of that region.

Wild Yogi observes Nepal’s shifting collective identity and spirit,  from the urban sprawl of Kathmandu to the rural mountains of Pyuthan. The first stage of production took place in the summer monsoon of 2025 between June and August only months before Nepal’s recent political collapse and overthrow of the Prime Minister. The documentary film observes the growing spark of a revolution, a time capsule into a summer of growing tensions and societal unrest. Observing a raw humanity unique to documentary filmmaking, Wild Yogi forms a divine thread between its audience and the characters we discover. 

In an age of rampant mental illness leading to escalating rates of addiction and suicide, violent political divisions, and an increasingly polluted and changing climate, we need solutions on a mass scale. The film is dedicated to our generation, young voices like Tikram and our team, who must bear the burden of a dying world on our shoulders. The message of Wild Yogi to connect with something greater than oneself for health and peace of mind is now more relevant than ever.