Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Nacimiento : 1920-04-07,

Muerte : 2012-12-11

Historia

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.

Perfil

Ravi Shankar

Películas

Climax
Music
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, scary things and some crazy people start troubling them. The couple runs for their life and reaches a small town only to know there are more dangerous situations are in store for them. Who is behind these incidents and how the couple comes out of this mess forms the crux of the story.
Officer
Original Music Composer
An honest officer fights to bring down a corrupt and dangerous cop, and attempts to bring down the entire Mumbai mafia with him.
George Harrison: All Things Pass
Himself
George Harrison was an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who initially achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, but went on to sell millions of critically acclaimed solo records. Harrison was referred to as the quiet one of the Beatles, often in the shadow of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. However, he later acquired the respect of critics world wide and is now considered to be on the same level - if not surpassing - Lennon and McCartney as a song writer, a result of creating songs such as ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. Rolling Stone magazine even ranked him number 11 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," and he is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Attack
Music
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 upsets Guru Raj’s elder son Kaali and he decides to take revenge on his father’s killers. But twist in the tale arises when he too gets killed like his father. Left with no choice, Guru Raj’s third son, Radha takes up things in his hands and decides an counter attack.Rest of the story is as to how Radha manages to take his revenge and where does Guru Raj’s second son feature in this setup.
Awake: The Life of Yogananda
Self
La vida de Paramahansa Yogananda, que tuvo un rol fundamental en la introducción del yoga y de la meditación en el mundo occidental moderno e inspira a millones.
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Self
Es ésta una muestra más del interés de Scorsese por el mundo de la música. En este caso muestra el viaje musical y personal de George Harrison y su constante búsqueda de un equilibrio entre lo físico y lo espiritual. Además de las consabidas imágenes de archivo, incluye el testimonio de amigos y familiares sobre la vida del antiguo Beatle.
Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India
Self
A rare, previously unreleased concert performance of Ravi Shankar's 'Music Festival From India' album recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1974. This DVD compiles all the complete filmed performances discovered from this historic concert.
Beatles, The Journey
Sithar
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Himself
Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh Revisited
Self
Short documentary focused on the background story of the show, including interviews with cast and crew.
Concert for George
Amigos, familiares y compañeros de George Harrison le rinden tributo en un concierto aniversario, un año después de su fallecimiento.
The Song of the Little Road
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 Lifetime Achievement Oscar. But when film-preservationist David Sheppard volunteered to go to Bengal, he found the original negatives in a terrible state. “It’s hard to think of another world-class filmmaker”, says Sheppard, “whose oeuvre hangs by such a thin thread!” The Song of the Little Road tells the story of how a master’s body of work came so close to disintegration, and why Ray’s films move audiences so deeply across time and cultural boundaries. Three icons – director Martin Scorsese, producer Ismail Merchant, and music composer Ravi Shankar – illustrate stirringly what makes a masterpiece.
Ravi Shankar: Between Two Worlds
Sitar
Filmed over two years in India and the USA, Mark Kidel's award-winning documentary brings together archive footage spanning seven decades of Ravi Shankar's performing life, and provides a definitive account of the late sitar maestro's unique musical career.
Woodstock Diary
Himself
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 with remastered 5.1 sound. It includes performances not shown in the Woodstock movie but not exclusively. Between the songs there are recent interviews with the producers / organizers of Woodstock Joel Rosenman, John Roberts, Michael Lang, the stage announcer Wavy Gravy and Lisa Law (a member of the Hog Farm who helped out at the festival).
Genesis
Music
This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.
Gandhi
Original Music Composer
Después de defender los derechos de los ciudadanos africanos en Sudáfrica, Gandhi, considerando que también los hindúes son ciudadanos de segunda clase en su propia tierra, los incita a sublevarse contra el Imperio Británico mediante la doctrina de la no-violencia.
The Concert for Bangladesh
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
Raga
Himself
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 India to revisit his guru, Bengali multi-instrumentalist and composer, Baba Ustad Allauddin Khan. It further explores Shankar's life as a musician and teacher in the United States and Europe, initiating those in the West to the exceptional world that is Indian classical music and culture. Through rare and candid footage shot in both India and the United States, Raga sheds light on Shankar's influences and collaborations, from Allauddin Khan to his famed dancer brother Uday Shankar, to his associations with Western musicians Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison. Fully narrated by Shankar himself, the film reveals music as the soul of India and of Shankar's life.
Sex and the Animals
Music
Nature documentary, consisting of footage of various animals mating, narrated by naturalists and university professors Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne.
Monterey Pop
Himself
Este documental muestra los mejores momentos del famoso festival californiano en 1967, incluyendo artistas como Mamas And The Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Otis Redding o Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Charly
Music
Charly Gordon (Cliff Robertson) sufre un retraso mental, pero se somete a una delicada operación quirúrgica que elimina sus limitaciones. Convertido en un hombre normal, se enamora y vive feliz, pero llega un día en que los efectos de la operación empiezan a desaparecer.
Viola
Music
Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
Original Music Composer
Esta película rodada para la televisión se considera la obra que mejor refleja el mundo malsano de la novela de Lewis Carroll.
Chappaqua
Sun God
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
Chappaqua
Original Music Composer
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
The Psychedelics
Music
"...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 these images on Pat Barrington’s body as she was doing a belly dance. It was just perfect, and it was an the height of the LSD period and all the hippies loved it." - Ed DePriest
Swapna Niye
Music
Swapna Niye is a 1966 Indian Bengali film, directed by Purnendu Patri.
The Psychedelic Experience
Music
Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.
Ustad Alauddin Khan
Self
Life and disciples of legendary Indian classical musician and teacher, 'Guru' of Pandit Ravishankar, 'Baba' Ustad Alauddin Khan.
Megh
Music
Apur Sansar (El mundo de Apu)
Original Music Composer
Apu, que ha logrado trágicamente su ansiada independencia, siente reforzada su ansia de conocimiento. Sus deseos de escribir, soñar y amar parecen cumplirse cuando conoce a Aparna y se casa con ella. Tercera y última parte de la "trilogía de Apu".
The Sword and the Flute
Music
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 (1542-1605), who united what is now India and Pakistan, and his son Jahangir (1569-1627). Two schools of the miniature paintings, done by anonymous artists, flourished after Akbar established unity and peace across what had been many smaller states: the Moghul (Islamic) school and the Rajput (Hindu) school. The Moghul paintings record the events of the court, while the Rajput school connects physical beauty and, in particular, the longing of women to the transcendent values of the spirit.
La piedra filosofal
Original Music Composer
En Calcuta, un modesto y mal pagado dependiente descubre una piedra que convierte en oro cualquier pieza de metal con sólo tocarla. Cuando llega a casa se la muestra a su mujer, y en poco tiempo se convierten en uno de los matrimonios más ricos de la ciudad, llevando un lujoso tren de vida y acudiendo a reuniones sociales y políticas de la alta sociedad...
A Chairy Tale
Music
An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon.
Kabuliwala
Music
Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illness and decides to return to Afghanistan. But before he goes a violent fight with a customer leads to Rehmat killing him. He gets out of prison ten years later. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore story.
Aparajito (El invencible)
Original Music Composer
Relata la juventud de Apu en Benarés, su deseo de independizarse y estudiar en Calcuta para poder llevar una vida diferente a la que han conocido sus padres. Segundo film de la "Trilogía de Apu".
Pather Panchali (La canción del camino)
Music
Narra la historia de una familia bengalí acuciada por la mala suerte. El padre, Harihara, es un sacerdote seglar, curandero, soñador y poeta. Sabajaya, la madre, trabaja para alimentar a su familia, que recibe con alegría y esperanza la llegada de un nuevo hijo, Apu. Es el primer film de "La trilogía de Apu".
Dharti Ke Lal
Music
Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander
Neecha Nagar
Music
Wealthy landlord Sarkar decides to direct all waste into the village to make space for his real estate project. However, the poor villagers agitate against his plan and the protest is led by Balraj.
Moments with the Maestro
Self
An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankar”, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.
Moments with the Maestro
Music
An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankar”, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.
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 concepts of a raga, a gharana, and their world of music. Characteristics of various gharana/schools such as the Jaipur gharana, the Kirana gharana, the Agra gharana, the Patiala gharana, the Mewati gharana are explained along with the contribution made by their leading exponents.