Produced and directed
by Art Makosinski

Music by Ravi Shankar

With original works played
by Anoushka and Ravi Shankar

and excerpts from:
TANA MANA
by Ravi Shankar, courtesy of Private Music,
and CHANTS OF INDIA
by Ravi Shankar, courtesy of Angel Records.

Running time: 45 minutes

SYNOPSIS

The expectations of following in the footsteps of a musical talent like Ravi Shankar can be overwhelming. At nine years of age, Anoushka, Ravi Shankar's daughter picked up the sitar.

But as Ravi Shankar admits: "Being a father and a guru, and living in California, and she now being a teenager, it's not easy..."

With Ravi Shankar's compositions played by Anoushka and Ravi Shankar, the documentary gives a picture of Anoushka at a point in her life when she knows she wants to be a sitarist, and of her father who wants to teach her as quickly as possible, as much as he can.

FROM THE PRODUCER:

Living through the sixties, seventies, and eighties precipitated many Ravi Shankar albums to my collection. I would sit for hours listening and visualising the music. An almost accidental meeting with Ravi and his wife Sukanya in Canada in 1994 started a project that eventually became this personal, musical documentary. The Shankar family and friends cooperated in interviews, and tolerated the intrusion on their lives as I followed them on concert tours to California, Alaska, New York, Thailand, and India.

Production of ANOUSHKA was not funded by an agency, art council, or a corporation. All proceeds from its sales go to the Ravi Shankar Foundation, a non-profit organisation for the conservation of the music of Ravi Shankar and training of young, talented artists in the Shankar tradition.

Available from:

The Ravi Shankar Foundation