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

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.

MUMBAI – Farhan Akhtar has been cast by director Sam Mendes’s in his upcoming project, ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event.’ Akhtar was last seen in a Hollywood project in the web series ‘Ms.

Bollywood actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar is set to make a major splash on the global stage with a key role in The Beatles – A ...