A documentary on the dazzling success and dizzying fall of Bikram Chaudhury

This is a story of a man who owed his phenomenal success to his knowledge of yoga, and his downfall to behaviour that ran entirely counter to how a true yogi should live his life.

Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury did what America famously allows, inspires and invites immigrants to do — pursue the American Dream. He identified an opportunity, used his talents and hard work to meet a demand, sold his product admirably and sat back to watch the millions roll in. The trouble is, as a new Netflix documentary directed by Oscar-winning Australian filmmaker Eva Orner points out, the dream was built over the nightmares of many.

The title says it all: Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator. The film tracks his career in the United States, from the time he arrived in the early 1970s to