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Ratul Shankar

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Nationality
  
Indian

Movies
  
The Festival

Occupation
  
Percussionist, actor

Siblings
  
Rajit Shankar

Name
  
Ratul Shankar

Uncles
  
Role
  
Actor


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Born
  
July 30, 1979 (age 44) (
1979-07-30
)
Calcutta (now Kolkata)

Relatives
  
Uday Shankar (grandfather)Ravi Shankar (granduncle)

Parents
  
Chandrodoy Ghosh, Mamata Shankar

Grandparents
  
Uday Shankar, Amala Shankar

Similar People
  
Mamata Shankar, Amala Shankar, Uday Shankar, Ananda Shankar, Rituparno Ghosh

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Ratul Shankar (born Ratul Shankar Ghosh) is a percussionist and actor.

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Family background

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Ratul Shankar is the great-grandson of Shyam Shankar Chowdhury, grandson of Uday Shankar, grand nephew of Ravi Shankar, son of Mamata Shankar and nephew of singers Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones.

Born in the Shankar family on July 30, 1979. Ratul was exposed to the various forms of performing arts at a very young age. He has been touring with his illustrious parents Mamata Shankar and Chandrodoy Ghosh from the age of 2 years.

Trained under Sri. Tanmoy Bose, Ratul also has had the honour of performing in his World Music Project “TAAL TANTRA” and has been performing with the project for the last 13 years. He has also been a feature of various other World Music projects.

A Major in Mass Communication and Videography from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, Shankar made his debut in acting with Rituporno Ghosh in the National Award winning film Utsab in 2000.

But music has always been his first love and shall always be, as he always says, his greatest influence has been his uncle Ananda Shankar. While performing with “TAAL TANTRA” and other various projects, Ratul has had the privilege to perform with the maestros namely Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Taufique Quereshi, Selvaganesh, Pt. Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Pt. Bickram Ghosh, Pete Lockett, Tilmann Dienhart, Niladri Kumar, Carl Peters, Ranajit Sengupta, Wolfgang Netzer, Soweto Kinch, Jesse Bannister, Attab Hadad and many more.

Shankar has been touring extensively with various projects the world over. His main interest lies in collaborating with musicians from all over and believes in the Cultural Exchange that takes place fluently.

As an actor

Ratul has acted in Anuranan and Rituparno Ghosh's Utsab

References

Ratul Shankar Wikipedia