Farhan Akhtar has spoken about the responsibility of portraying legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar on screen, describing ...

Farhan Akhtar is set to portray Ravi Shankar and has called it one of the most challenging roles of his career. He has begun ...

What was Ravi Shankar famous for? Ravi Shankar was born in Benares, India, on April 7, 1920. He spent his childhood studying music and dance, but he gave up the latter when he turned 18. He studied ...

Playing Pandit Ravi Shankar is not easy, finds Farhan Akhtar, who will be seen as the sitar superstar in Sam Mendes’ ambitious four-part biopic series, The Beatles. Farhan, a guitarist in real life, ...

Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and The Beatles had a meaningful relationship. Without Shankar’s influence, The Beatles might not have experimented with new sounds. George first heard Indian music in ...

The announcement that Farhan Akhtar will play Ravi Shankar comes with an image most people already recognise: Shankar on stage at The Concert for Bangladesh, quietly changing the rules of what popular ...

Sunnyvale’s EnActe Arts is presenting a play that looks at the life of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, from his days as a ...

The Ravi Shankar Ensemble—a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians curated by Anoushka and Sukanya Shankar— will embark on a 14-city debut tour this Spring from Schirmer Theatrical, ...

“What Andrés Segovia is to the guitar, what Pablo Casals is to the cello, so Ravi Shankar is to the sitar. The master. The one who you might say revolutionized the instrument.” This is how Chicago ...