The definitive account of India's most celebrated musician follows two years of Ravi Shankar's life against the backdrop of seven decades of collaboration with Western musicians like George Harrison, John Coltrane and Yehudi Menuhin. Archive footage shows key performances filmed from the 1930's to the present. Ravi Shankar performs two ragas (Raga anandi kalyan and Raga rangeela piloo) in the Union Chapel in London, summer 2002, with his daughter...

Apu Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee), now a young unemployed man, lives in poverty and attempts to be a writer. When his old school friend Pulu (Swapan Mukherjee) convinces him to go on a trip to a family wedding, surprising circumstances end in Apu marrying the bride, Aparna (Sharmila Tagore). Set on being a responsible husband, Apu finds a job and becomes close to his wife, but tragedy strikes, leaving him at yet another crossroads.

Unrelenting study of a poverty stricken Indian family.