Shankar heard about the positive response Khan received and resigned from AIR in 1956 to tour the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States.

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It was directed by Hira Singh Khatri and the lead actors were Shiva Shankar Manandhar and Bhuwan Chand, who are regarded as the first actors in the history of the Nepali film industry.

The movie, in which debutants Shankar and Poornima Jayaram played the lead roles, became a major hit and for Mohanlal, " there was no looking back ".

In 1979, he appeared in his second and final all-time blockbuster Thirisoolam, adapted from the Kannada film Shankar Guru in which Rajkumar had played the lead role.

The book was also adapted to a Broadway play by Harvey Breit and Patricia Rinehart, and was staged at Hudson Theatre in 1968 with Zia Mohyeddin playing the lead role and Ravi Shankar scoring the music.

George Harrison, lead guitarist of The Beatles, received his first copy of Autobiography of a Yogi from Ravi Shankar in 1966 and " that was where his interest in Vedic culture and Indian-ness began.

The original line-up included the Australian born, Shiva Shankar Jones ( voice, keyboards, percussion ), Raja Ram ( flute, percussion ), Sambhu Baba ( bass guitar, guitar ), Maha Dev ( guitar ), Allan Mostert ( lead guitar, bass guitar, sitar ), and Jake Milton ( drums, percussion ).

In June 1995, producer A. M. Rathnam signed on Shankar, who had directed two blockbusters in Gentleman ( 1993 ) and Kaadhalan ( 1994 ), to make a new venture featuring leading actor Kamal Haasan in the lead role.

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* Ravi Shankar, musician, survived

Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920 ), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar.

Shankar was sporadically trained by Khan on tour, and Khan offered Shankar training to become a serious musician under the condition that he abandon touring and come to Maihar.

Shankar's association with Harrison greatly increased Shankar's popularity and Ken Hunt of Allmusic would state that Shankar had become " the most famous Indian musician on the planet " by 1966.

* Ravi Shankar ( born 1920 ), musician and composer best known for his work on the sitar.

Appalled at the desperate situation affecting his homeland and relatives, Bengali musician Ravi Shankar first brought the issue to the attention of his friend George Harrison in the early months of 1971, over dinner at Friar Park, according to Klaus Voormann ’ s recollection.

* Ravi Shankar ( with Ali Akbar Khan )-A classical Indian musician.

Other examples of ECM's world music are records by Codona, Tunisian oud musician Anouar Brahem, Indian violinist L. Shankar, Jon Hassell, Dave Liebman and Brazilian percussionist Nana Vasconcelos.

** Ananda Shankar ( 1942 – 1999 ), Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles.

Ravi Shankar, Indian classical musician, " met Paramahansa Yogananda on two occasions in the 1930s as a boy.

This storm as well as the war would also inspire ex-Beatle George Harrison and Bengali musician Ravi Shankar to organize The Concert for Bangladesh, the prototype benefit concert, to raise money for aid, in 1971.

Harrison was captivated by the sound of the instrument ; he soon developed a profound interested in Indian music, culture and spirituality, and sparked a trend by taking sitar lessons from Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, whom Harrison continued to regard as the " best musician on the planet " long after the 1960s and who, coincidentally, had also recorded for The Beatles ' label, EMI.

While Ananda Shankar was a musician and music composer who trained with Dr. Lalmani Misra rather than his uncle, Ravi Shankar, and in time became known for his fusion music, encompassing both Western and Indian music styles.

* U1, alias for Yuvan Shankar Raja ( born 1979 ), a Tamil musician and film composer

After a meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, Harrison was introduced to the sitar, which was used in songs like " Within You Without You " and " The Inner Light ".

After being made aware of the gravity of the situation in what was then known as East Pakistan by friend and musician Ravi Shankar, George Harrison quickly organised two performances to aid the war-ravaged and disaster-stricken country.

Phil Jones ( aka Shiva Shankar Jones ), father of Amarnath and Krishna, is a musician, who worked with 1960s group The Unknown Blues.

Reputed names in the domain of Indian classical music like Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan and Ram Narayan have also composed music for films.

After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s.

Shankar shortened the Sanskrit version of his first name, Ravindra, to Ravi, for " sun ".

Shankar recomposed the music for the popular song " Sare Jahan Se Achcha " at the age of 25.

Shankar founded the Indian National Orchestra at AIR and composed for it ; in his compositions he combined Western and classical Indian instrumentation.

Shankar had performed as part of a cultural delegation in the Soviet Union in 1954 and Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

Shankar befriended Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records, on his first American tour and recorded most of his albums in the 1950s and 1960s for Bock's label.

Harrison met Shankar in London in 1966 and visited India for six weeks to study sitar under Shankar in Srinagar.

In late 1970, the London Symphony Orchestra invited Shankar to compose a concerto with sitar ; Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra was performed with André Previn as conductor and Shankar playing the sitar.

George Harrison organized the charity Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971, in which Shankar participated.

Shankar toured and taught for the remainder of the 1970s and the 1980s and released his second concerto, Raga Mala, conducted by Zubin Mehta, in 1981.

Shankar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for his work on the 1982 movie Gandhi, but lost to John Williams ' E. T.

Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.