Legendary tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed away at a hospital in San Francisco due to complications arising from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the family said in a statement on Monday (December ...

In a career that spanned over six decades, Zakir Hussain worked with not just India’s musical stalwarts like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan but also legends like George Harrison ...

I'll end by dedicating a tune to you. It was co-written by you and John McLaughlin in the 1987 album Making Music, and its title is Zakir. My feelings are somewhat like what saxophonist Jan ...

Does he act like him? Does he talk like him?” There were other reasons why it was better to work with a monkey than a man. “With musical biopics, you deal with the star or their estate ...

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. Actor Jonno Davies plays ...

(As a monkey.) The film, however, would surely be better as a conversation with a therapist, rather than an estimated $110 million-budget movie. “Better Man” charts Williams’ childhood in ...

His complicated, colorful life has been cast in a more fantastical way in “Better Man,” the new film directed ... musical biography depicts him as a monkey (well, technically a chimpanzee ...

Zakir Hussain, the man and the Tabla Master, will be remembered at a special meeting in Auckland on Sunday, January 12, 2025. Sargam School of Music and Sounds of Music Charitable Trust are organising ...

But there is a variation to “Better Man” that immediately spotlights its unconventionality. Williams is portrayed not as a human, but as a monkey. In a recent video chat, Williams – still ...

Following the death of Grammy-winning Indian musician Zakir Hussain in December 2024, an old video resurfaced online in posts that falsely claimed it showed him performing with legendary Pakistani ...