Review: The Beatles and India (2021)
During their brief-but-prolific career as a band, The Beatles not only shaped the direction of popular music, they also had a profound impact on art, fashion, drug culture, and even spirituality. Beginning with George Harrison's newfound interest with Indian music in 1965 and culminating a few years later along the road to Rishikesh, The Beatles were instrumental in sparking curiosity in meditation and Eastern philosophy. The story of their spiritual quest has been endlessly chronicled over the decades, but never quite as thoroughly as in The Beatles and India , a new documentary that looks at this often-studied time in the history of the band from a decidedly Indian perspective. The Beatles and India is directed by Ajoy Bose and Peter Compton, with Bose adapting his 2018 book Across the Universe: The Beatles in India for the screen. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the film features no music from The Beatles, but the Fab Four are well represented through archival ...