Gautam Lewis has come to Kolkata from London for Mother Teresa's cannonisation.
As the countdown begins to sainthood for Mother Teresa on Sunday and everybody who can is off to The Vatican, one man has come down from London to Kolkata and plans to spend September 4 in Mother Teresa's city where she had found him abandoned, crippled with polio and given him a different destiny.
39-year-old Gautam Lewis has come over with a film he has made called Mother and Me. Not "Mother and Gautam" because he wanted to tell the story of thousands of others whose lives she changed.
"I had polio when I was 18 months old. Because of poverty, geography and disability, my birth mother couldn't look after me. She gave me to someone who could. Mother Teresa was my second mother. Like all mothers, she gave me unconditional love and the chance to have a different destiny," says Mr Lewis.
Mother Teresa gave him to his third mother, Patricia, who took him to London and gave him the best education, the best medical care and made his dreams come true despite the crutches which he must use.
"I am a pilot. I teach other disabled people to fly airplanes. Mother Teresa used faith to change lives. I use aviation to change lives," he says.
In his film there is an evocative shot of a sky full of red kites, something he remembers since his days at Shishu Bhavan, Mother Teresa's home for abandoned children. "I flew kites and saw planes," he recalls. "I wanted to feel liberated from my disability and fly away. I made my dream real."
And he wants to help others, so he ran a competition for songs on Mother Teresa and picked up two young singers from Kolkata. They have mixed Rabindra Nath Tagore's well-known song, Mora Gang, with a bit of rap and hip hop. Lewis, who also runs a music company out of London, will release the song worldwide on September 4, at the same time as Mother is made saint at the Vatican.