Anoushka Shankar

Anoushka Shankar's maiden project as a film music composer was unique. After scoring for the restored 1928 Indian silent period drama Shiraz: A Romance of India, the British Indian sitar player is enthused about taking up more film projects, albeit with "modern" narratives and "normal conversations". "I really loved getting to score my first film, and as everyone in the film would tell me, what I started with was especially challenging because it was a silent film. So it was a real big project to take on.