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I was instantly reminded of the movie Abhimaan. Turns out that the movie was indeed made after the troubled relationship between Pandit Ravi Shankar and his estranged wife Annapurna Devi. Deviji was by many accounts very talented, possibly more so than late Ravi Shankar, who of course became world famous touring the world and playing at Woodstock, and alongside the Beatles. In a lone interview, Deviji claimed she stopped playing the surbahar because of the jealousy she perceived from Ravi Shankar when she did. It couldn't have helped that Ravi Shankar was an incorrigible philanderer and by all accounts a reasonably shitty human being. For instance, he refused to acknowledge the existence of Norah Jones for a long time, stating that Anoushka Shankar was his only true daughter.
Abhimaan had such good songs. In fact, any old Hindi song just takes you to a place of such comfort and happiness. Maybe it is the classical underpinning of the music, maybe its the quality of the lyrics, maybe its the use of old Hindustani instruments, I don't know. It sent me again to a happy place.
I was instantly reminded of the movie Abhimaan. Turns out that the movie was indeed made after the troubled relationship between Pandit Ravi Shankar and his estranged wife Annapurna Devi. Deviji was by many accounts very talented, possibly more so than late Ravi Shankar, who of course became world famous touring the world and playing at Woodstock, and alongside the Beatles. In a lone interview, Deviji claimed she stopped playing the surbahar because of the jealousy she perceived from Ravi Shankar when she did. It couldn't have helped that Ravi Shankar was an incorrigible philanderer and by all accounts a reasonably shitty human being. For instance, he refused to acknowledge the existence of Norah Jones for a long time, stating that Anoushka Shankar was his only true daughter.
Abhimaan had such good songs. In fact, any old Hindi song just takes you to a place of such comfort and happiness. Maybe it is the classical underpinning of the music, maybe its the quality of the lyrics, maybe its the use of old Hindustani instruments, I don't know. It sent me again to a happy place.
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