Aravindan Balakrishnan, known to his followers as "Comrade Bala", was born in Kerala, India but migrated to Singapore, Malaya, where his father was a soldier. Balakrishnan ran the cult, called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, from a London HQ. On 21 November 2013 Metropolitan Police from the Human Trafficking Unit arrested two suspects at a residential address in Lambeth, South London. A 73-year-old ethnic Indian Singaporean man, Aravindan Balakrishnan, and a 67-yea
Gender: Male
Born On: 1-Jan-1940
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Aravindan Balakrishnan's Filmography on TV
List of programs starring Aravindan Balakrishnan on tv. Programs are sorted in order of last seen on tv. Last updated: Jun 29, 2024 2:54 AM
The Cult Next Door (2017)
In 2013, three women emerged from a flat in Brixton. They had been held there for decades by Aravindan Balakrishnan, a revolutionary Maoist who controlled the women with brainwashing techniques and tales of a sinister, world-controlling machine he called 'Jackie'.