My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

He lived with Sukanya in Encinitas California. Hans Neuhoff of Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart has argued that Shankar's playing style was not widely adopted and that he was surpassed by other sitar players in the performance of melodic passages. Shankar recomposed the music for the popular song "Sare Jahan Se Achcha" at the age of 25.

Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. Ravi Shankar KBE (Bengali: রবি শংকর IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) often referred to by the title Pandit was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar a plucked string instrument.