Play Like A Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar

SYNOPSIS

Award-winning Play Like a Lion travels India and across centuries to explore the musical legacy of iconic multi-Grammy nominated Indian sarodist Ali Akbar Khan, as seen through the eyes of his son Alam. With commentaries by Carlos Santana, the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, slide guitarist Derek Trucks, jazz saxophonist John Handy, Khan's eldest son virtuoso sarodist Aashish Khan, and tabla masters Zakir Hussain and Swapan Chaudhuri to a soundtrack of Khan's music-"the sound of singing water." Directed by Joshua Dylan Mellars.