Farhan Akhtar has been cast as Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes' Beatles films, but who exactly was this man? A concise history of the sitar maestro who mentored George Harrison.

When one references the greatest contributors to the psychedelic rock movement of the 60s, they likely think of The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles. However, ...

That difference in attitude created an early tension. Shankar would later say of the first sitar-heavy Beatles track, “I was ...

Farhan Akhtar is set to portray Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes' upcoming four-part cinematic series about The Beatles. This project, announced by Sony Pictures, aims to explore the iconic band’s history ...

When George Harrison’s "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Les Paul was kidnapped in 1973, he called on his former sitar mentor Ravi Shankar to issue an appeal for its safe return, such was their ...

Farhan is set to play the role of Ravi Shankar in the upcoming four films on each member of English band The Beatles. The ...

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Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over an eight-decade ...

Bollywood actor, director and producer Farhan Akhtar has joined the cast of the much-anticipated The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event, taking on the role of Ravi Shankar, the influential sitar ...