Ravi Shankar, whose name is often preceded by the title Pandit and “Sitar maestro”, was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world.
Ravi Shankar Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ravi Shankar |
| Also Know | Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Sound |
| Place of Birth | Varanasi, India |
| Date of Birth | 1920-04-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday | 2012-12-11 |
Ravi Shankar Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds | Sitar | 2001-08-31 | Filmed over two years in India and the USA, Mark Kidel’s award-winning documentary brings together archive footage spanning seven decades of Ravi Shan… |
| Raga | Himself | 1971-11-23 | A Film Journey to the Soul of India documents the life of sitar master Ravi Shankar in the late 1960s and early 1970s, following him on his return to … |
| Ravi Shankar’s Music Festival from India | Self | 2010-10-19 | A rare, previously unreleased concert performance of Ravi Shankar’s ‘Music Festival From India’ album recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1974. … |
| Moments with the Maestro | Self | An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankarâ€, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his ve… | |
| Ustad Alauddin Khan | Self | 1963-02-06 | Life and disciples of legendary Indian classical musician and teacher, ‘Guru’ of Pandit Ravishankar, ‘Baba’ Ustad Alauddin Khan…. |
| Concert for George | Self | 2003-10-03 | As a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his passing, The Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 29 Nov… |
| The Concert for Bangladesh | Self | 1972-03-23 | A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Banglades… |
| Woodstock Diary | Himself | 1994-08-14 | Woodstock Diary was originally broadcasted on U.S. TV in August 1994 – in honor of the 25th anniversary of the event. Later it was released on DVD wit… |
| Khayal | Here in this film about the Indian classical music, the sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar and the santoor maestro Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma explaining their … | ||
| Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts | Himself | 2007-09-07 | Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a… |
| Chappaqua | Sun God | 1966-08-30 | Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in Sa… |
| George Harrison: All Things Pass | Himself | 2018-03-20 | George Harrison was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who initially achieved international fame as the lead guitar… |
| The Song of the Little Road | 2003-08-30 | Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece the Apu Trilogy is widely considered one of the most important works in cinema history. In 1992, Ray was awarded the Life… | |
| Beatles, The Journey | Sithar | 2008-03-18 | … |
| George Harrison & Friends – The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited | Self | 2005-10-24 | Short documentary focused on the background story of the show, including interviews with cast and crew…. |
| George Harrison: Living in the Material World | Self | 2011-10-05 | Director Martin Scorsese profiles former Beatle George Harrison in this reverent portrait that mixes interviews and archival footage, featuring commen… |
| Monterey Pop | Himself | 1968-12-26 | Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all music… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Aparajito | Original Music Composer | 1956-10-11 | Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Va… |
| Apur Sansar | Original Music Composer | 1959-05-01 | Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding…… |
| Pather Panchali | Music | 1955-08-26 | Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work…. |
| Viola | Music | 1967-01-01 | Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis…. |
| Chappaqua | Original Music Composer | 1966-08-30 | Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in Sa… |
| Dharti Ke Lal | Music | 1946-01-02 | Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander… |
| Sex and the Animals | Music | 1969-12-17 | Nature documentary, consisting of footage of various animals mating, narrated by naturalists and university professors Lorus J. Milne and Margery Miln… |
| Charly | Music | 1968-09-23 | An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to hi… |
| Parosh Pathar | Original Music Composer | 1958-01-17 | An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a stone that changes iron to gold on touch…. |
| Attack | Music | 2016-04-01 | Guru Raj, a powerful business man of Charminar Group of Companies who runs his own gang as a mafia don, gets brutally assassinated. This incident upse… |
| Alice in Wonderland | Original Music Composer | 1966-12-26 | Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th… |
| The Sword and the Flute | Music | 1959-01-01 | Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar… |
| Gandhi | Original Music Composer | 1982-11-30 | In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian … |
| Officer | Original Music Composer | 2018-06-01 | An honest officer fights to bring down a corrupt and dangerous cop, and attempts to bring down the entire Mumbai mafia with him…. |
| Kabuliwala | Music | 1957-04-01 | Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who remi… |
| A Chairy Tale | Music | 1957-12-31 | An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon…. |
| The Psychedelics | Music | 1966-07-06 | “…I was playing it at the Cinematheque, and it got a lot of word of mouth in town. Everybody liked it because we used this really neat trick to put … |
| Neecha Nagar | Music | 1946-01-01 | Wealthy landlord Sarkar decides to direct all waste into the village to make space for his real estate project. However, the poor villagers agitate ag… |
| Climax | Music | 2020-06-06 | Diane and her boyfriend try to do things out of the blue and enter a desert even after there is a no-entry board written on it. In this situation, sca… |
| Genesis | Music | 1986-06-02 | This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Sha… |
| Megh | Music | 1961-06-16 | … |
| Moments with the Maestro | Music | An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankarâ€, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his ve… | |
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