Mumbai: Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen's Paroma.

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Believe it or not, Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the Sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. Neither Aparna nor I wanted to fake it. Pandit Ravi Shankar was requested to ...

Believe it or not, Rakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the Sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen's Paroma.

Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen’s Paroma. Recalling the ...

In a 1999 interview, Ravi Shankar, who died Tuesday, talked to Fresh Air about hippies, psychedelic drugs, "Norwegian Wood," George Harrison, his fond memories of the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 and ...

Actor Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in the Bengali film Paroma (1984), directed by ...