India, Oct. 9 -- Mandala South Asian Performing Arts has partnered with India Development Service to present "6-A Akash Ganga," an award-winning film about legendary musician Annapurna Devi, the widow of renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar.

For years, maestros waited in hope for Annapurna Devi-a legendary classical musician and unparalleled guru-to accept them as disciples.

Even George Harrison of The Beatles sought special permission just to hear her practice. Yet, in the mid-1950s, she made a profound decision: to stop performing altogether to protect her marriage to the world-famous sitarist Ravi Shankar, who had grown uneasy with the growing acclaim she was receiving.

Her disciple, Nityanand Haldipur, cuts through the myths to tell the ...