Popular Media
Richard Denton wrote and produced a documentary for BBC Four titled Did Jesus Die? in 2004. It is narrated by Bernard Hill and features Elaine Pagels, Peter Stanford, John Dominic Crossan, Paula Fredriksen, Father Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Tom Wright, Thierry LaCombe (French Knights Templar conspiracy theorist), Richard Andrews, James Tabor, Steve Mason (biblical scholar), and Ahmadi editor Abdul Aziz Kashmiri. The documentary explores the survival from the cross theory, and in passing mentions theories such as a journey to India by Jesus, along with a section on the story of Yuz Asaf.
On Christmas Day 2007 Channel 4 showed the documentary The Hidden Story of Jesus presented by Robert Beckford, which included filming inside the shrine of Roza Bal, and among those interviewed for the documentary was Fida Hassnain. Robert Beckford remained open-minded to the possibility that Yuz Asaf was Jesus.
More recently the tomb at Roza Bal began to gain popularity among western tourists as the possible tomb of Jesus. According to a 2010 BBC correspondent report, the old story may have been recently promoted by local shopkeepers who "thought it would be good for business", and its inclusion in the Lonely Planet travel guide to India helped drive the tourist business. The novel The Rozabal Line by Ashwin Sanghi makes reference to the shrine.
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