'We played at Zakir's request. It was an amazing experience for me playing with a famous tabla player's son.'
After a dry, dreadful, spell of darkness and desolation, it looks like Bollywood love stories are ready to rock the silver screen again.
The Indian classical musician made a special guest appearance at Anita Dongre's show.
An increasing number of young classical musicians are dabbling in fusion music, discovers Aditi Divekar.
The sitarist, considered among the greatest sitar players alongside Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee, belonged to Jaipur's Senia Gharana of music started by the descendants of Tansen's family and known for working towards preserving the purity of ragas.
Noted Indian musicians came together to pay tribute to Ustad Alla Rakha on his 15th death anniversary.
Instead of a puppy love story treatment, Laila Majnu could have been handled as a mature love story, feels Sneha Chakrabarti.
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