Documentary

Pandit Ravi Shankar

A portrait of the Maestro of the sitar

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Cast

Ravi Shankar

Yehudi Menuhin

Zubin Mehta — Conductor

George Harrison

Program notes

Musician, composer and a popular hero of his country… since fifty years, Ravi Shankar is the most important representative of Indian culture in the West. The film was shot in Benares, Calcutta, Delhi, Paris and London, with some of the friends or disciples of the famous musician, such as George Harrisson, Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Jean-Pierre Rampal. A real portrait of the acknowledged master of the sitar.

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