Anoushka Surprise

You knew she could do this (rocking sitar at Stern Grove, San Francisco – and it doesn’t say at YouTube, but I think I see Karsh Kale there too):

But did you know she could do this?

(Dancing the bharatanatyam, in a delightful little movie called Dance Like A Man.  Anoushka plays a character whose mother (played by Shobana) is a great bharatanatyam dancer who obsessively teaches her to be a great bharatanatyam dancer.  (Her father, played Arif Zakaria, is a bharatanatyam dancer too – or was one, long story.)  Do you think there’s something in this plotline that Anoushka Shankar might relate to just a bit?) 

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