Gingger in your music

Subramaniam,however,has rarely spoken about this ‘forgotten’ daughter. Question Shankar about her relationship with her father’s family and her three siblings,and she says,“So many from my family are in the public eye,I prefer not to discuss them,” she says.

Her forte is playing the double violin,an instrument that covers the whole orchestral range. “There are only two of them in the world,” she says. She has appeared at concerts with Peter Gabriel,Zakir Hussain and Smashing Pumpkins among others. But she has held only one performance,with percussionist Sivamani,in India.

Over e-mail from Los Angeles,where she is based,Shankar,28,says,“Unfortunately,I have not been to India for several years,but hope to be there by the end of 2011.”

Her mother features predominantly in her conversations. “My mother had everything to do with who I was and who I became as an artiste. I am my mother’s daughter,” says Shankar,who uses her mother’s maiden name instead of her father’s equally famous one.

A pianist and opera singer,she calls The Passion of The Christ an “education into film composing”. “Mel (Gibson) was very intense,but also entertaining,” says Shankar,who based the music of the film on 75 ragas. She is currently wrapping up The Homecoming by Sean Hackett,and playwright Richard Montoya’s next play and film.

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