![]() ![]() As the musicians perform a raga based on a folk tune from Bangladesh, footage is shown of refugees suffering from disease and malnutrition. After explaining that the first part of the concert will feature Indian music, he introduces sitar-player Shankar, Ulsted Ali Akbar Khan, who plays the lute-like sarod, Alla Rakah, who plays the tabla drums and Kamala Chakravarty, who plays the tamboura, another lute-like instrument. Harrison is then shown onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York, where he is welcomed by a cheering crowd. Harrison contacted his musician friends and asked them to participate in a benefit concert for Bangladesh. ![]() ![]() The film opens at a press conference in which former Beatle George Harrison explains that he decided to organize a charity concert to benefit the refugees of Bangladesh when his friend, Bengali musician Ravi Shankar, voiced his concern about the inhumane conditions the refugees had to endure because of the country's poverty and political turmoil.
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