Updated On: 12 December, 2012 04:03 PM IST | | Agencies
"Ravi was the first person who did not try to impress me but in turn I was impressed by him," Beatles legend George Harrison says about his first meeting with Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar in Martin Scorsese's documentary 'George Harrison: Living In the Material World'.
The meeting not only began a great friendship between two great musicians but was also a catalyst in introducing Harrison to Indian philosophy, which impacted every aspect of his life.u00a0
"His meeting with Ravi was not just between two individuals but of two cultures. It was a great cultural exchange," Olivia Harrison, wife of the late Beatle, said at the screening of the film here last year.