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2 unusual facts about Shankar


Shankar

Naren Shankar, writer, producer and director of several television series

Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), Indian sitar player and composer in the United States, daughter of Ravi Shankar


Aag Ka Gola

Sunny Deol - Vikram Singh/Shankar 'Shaka'
Dimple Kapadia - Aarti
Paintal - Shankar's Friend
Shakti Kapoor - Inspector Popat Lal
Prem Chopra - Raja Babu
Archana Puran Singh - Nisha
Om Shivpuri - Marwani Seth
Raza Murad - Dagga
Anjana Mumtaz - Shankar's Mother
Mahesh Anand - Mahesh
Sharat Saxena - Natwar Dada
Chunky Pandey - Himself

Amali Thumali

The film was initially titled Nanba and had a tagline of 2 Idiots, and thus the media reported confusion between this film and Shankar's Nanban, the remake of the 2009 Hindi film 3 Idiots.

Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was a Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles.

Aulikaras

A fragmentary undated inscription of a hitherto unknown ruler Kumaravarma was found by Girija Shankar Runwal during Mandsaur excavation by the team of Vikram University, Ujjain in 1979 from the foundations of a building.

Benaam Badsha

Benaam Badsha is a 1991 Indian Bollywood film directed by K. Ravi Shankar and produced by K. Ramji.

Brand tribalism

Michel Maffesoli (1996), Cova (1997), Veloutsou and Moutinho (2007), Cova and Cova (2001, 2002), Kozinets, Shankar et al. (2007),

Enga Thambi

He had also recommended the actress to be a part of Shankar's Gentleman, while the director had met with Prashanth and his father Thyagarajan, while considering the casting for Kadhalan.

Faiyaz Khan

Other well-known admirers include maestros such as Ahmad Jaan Thirakwa, Ustad Amir Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Vilayat Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.

G. M. Durrani

Thereafter he sang for, among others, noted music directors like Khurshid Anwar, Naushad, Shankar Rao Vyas and A. R. Qureshi (Better known as Alla Rakha, Pandit Ravi Shanker's famous tabla accompanist) for films like Mirza Ghalib, Humlog, Magroor, Shama, Namaste, Sabak and scores of others.

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College (GSVMMC or GSVM Medical College) is a medical college in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Journal of Earth System Science

The editor-in-chief is D. Shankar (National Institute of Oceanography).

Kadhalan

The soundtrack, released as Kadhalan: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, features 9 songs composed by Rahman, with lyrics scored by Vaali, Vairamuthu and S.Shankar who penned the Pettai Rap number.

Kali Salwar

This man, Shankar (Irrfan Khan), inverts their relationship with his wit and worldly wisdom.

Khando Ballal

He also conspired with Ramchandra Pant Amatya to secretly move Queens of Rajaram from Maharashtra to Gingee with the help of his maternal uncles Lingoji Shankar and Visaji Shankar Tungare.

Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan

Vaidyanathan made a special appearance in the 2005 Tamil movie Anniyan directed by Shankar, on the Tyagaraja Aradhana festival sequence for the song Iyengaaru Veetu which is a recreation of the real festival.

Lakshmi Shankar

Late that same year, she toured North America with Shankar and George Harrison, who produced the Shankar Family & Friends album (1974), including the pop single "I Am Missing You" with vocals by Lakshmi.

Lal Pahare'r Katha

Lal Pahare'r Katha (a story of the red hills), is a 2007 Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Remo D'Souza, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Rishi, Shankar Chakravarty, Diya and Piyali.

Leena Manimekalai

Leena Manimekalai along with Anjali Gopalan supported the Asia's first Genderqueer Pride Parade organised by Gopi Shankar of Srishti Madurai on July 2012.

M. S. Viswanathan

He has done playback singing for 500 songs composed by himself and has sung over 200 songs of composed by music directors like V. Kumar, Sankar Ganesh, Ilaiyaraaja, Gangai Amaran, Deva, Bharathwaj, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja.

Marava War of Succession

Prior to his death, Kilavan had first nominated his illegitimate son, Bhavani Shankar and later, due to protests from the people, chose his younger son, Vijayaraghunatha Sethupathi to succeed him.

Meanwhile, Bhavani Shankar had earned the ire of the Thanjavur Maratha ruler Tukkoji as he had failed to keep up his promise of delivering Aranthangi to the Thanjavur Marathas.

Mirapakay

During the course of the investigation, ACP (Sanjay Swaroop) is killed by Shankar (Kota Srinivasa Rao), a local goon with the help of his son (Supreet).

Nammanna

Nammanna (Kannada: ನಮ್ಮಣ್ಣ, translation: Our Brother) is a 2005 Kannada action-drama film (Telugu: Dowrjanyam ( దౌర్జన్యమ్ )) directed by N. Shankar featuring Sudeep, Anjala Zaveri and Asha Saini in the lead roles.

Naren Shankar

As a writer Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, Grimm and Star Trek: Voyager.

Shankar briefly served as co-executive producer and showrunner for Almost Human alongside creator J. H. Wyman before leaving the series.

Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthen

Noted cardiologist Dr K. M. Cherian made a special appearance in the film, while yesteryear actor Shankar also was roped in for the film.

Niranjan Pal

He also collaborated with noted dancer, Uday Shankar to write a libretto for first Indian ballets, performed by Anna Pavlova and Uday Shankar himself.

Orient, the Festival of Eastern Music

The festival has featured Oriental musicians such as Indian flautist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, sitarists Pandit Ravi Shankar and Anoushka Shankar, the Japanese giant drum ensemble "Kodô", the Tuvinian guttural singers "Huun-Huur-Tu", Tibetan Buddhists monks of Gyuto and Gyume monasteries, the Turkish percussionist Burhan Öçal, the Armenian dudukist Jivan Gasparyan, and the Azeri muqam singer Alim Qasimov.

Punnaram Cholli Cholli

Punnaram Cholli Cholli is a 1985 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by Priyadarshan, starring reigning star and romantic hero of 80's Shankar and Rahman respectively.

Ramana Madhesh

He entered the industry along with director Shankar and working with him since his first film 'Gentleman'.

Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India

The Collaborations box set marked the first release for Stuart Cooper's film of Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India, shot at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday, 23 September 1974.

On the square riser, from left to right, sit singers Viji Shankar, Lakshmi Shankar and Kamala Chakravarty, with percussionist Harihar Rao and bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia behind them.

Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela

Shankar Pratap Singh Bundela belongs to village Basari block Rajnagar, which was his former Estate under Madhya Pradesh.

Shivaranjani

Shivaranjani was a favourite of the legendary composers Shankar-Jaikishan (in fact, to be more precise, that of both Shankar and Jaikishan), in addition to the aforementioned song from Mera Naam Joker they also used it for O basanti pavan paagal ("O bewitching spring breeze") in Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai and O mere sanam ("O my love") in Sangam Mere naina Saon Vhado.

Siva Shankar Baba

Siva Shankar was born on January 28, 1949, to Narayana Sharma and Vijayalakshmi in the Alangayam village, near Vaniyambadi in the North Arcot (now comes under Vellore district) of Tamil Nadu.

Tana Mana

Shankar recorded much of Tana Mana in 1983 with sound effects innovator Frank Serafine, but it remained unreleased until Peter Baumann, head of new age record label Private Music, became attached to the project.

Vaitheeswaran

But she is stopped by a man Mani Shankar(Vijayakumar) who promises her that her son will be reincarnated and meet her 30 years hence.

Vasantha Sena

Vasantha Sena is a 1985 Malayalam family film directed by K. Vijayan, starring Shankar, Seema, Shobana, Ratheesh with Mohanlal in an extended guest appearance.

Vishalakshi Dakshinamurthy

They have three children Prasanna Shankar, Dr.D.Mangala Priyadarshini and Rajagopal.

Vivek Patil

Vivekanand Shankar Patil is a politician of the Peasants and Workers Party of India.

Zamaanat

An advocate named Shiv Shankar (Amitabh Bachchan) leaves his practice, after he loses his eyesight and becomes blind.


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