Farhan Akhtar set for Hollywood debut, to play Pandit Ravi Shankar in the biopic of the iconic band The Beatles

Many actors from the Hindi film industry have splashed through the Hollywood celluloid and carved a niche for themselves. The new name on the block is that of actor and filmmaker Farhan Akhtar. An official announcement has also been made and this could be the most ambitious project for the man that dons many hats.

Here’s what he’s going to be doing as per the now viral tweet

“New casting announced for The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event, directed by Sam Mendes. Farhan Akhtar will star as Ravi Shankar Lucy Boynton will star as Jane Asher Morfydd Clark will star as Cynthia (Powell) Lennon Harry Lawtey will star as Stuart Sutcliffe.”

New casting announced for The Beatles - A Four-Film Cinematic Event, directed by Sam Mendes.

Farhan Akhtar will star as Ravi Shankar
Lucy Boynton will star as Jane Asher
Morfydd Clark will star as Cynthia (Powell) Lennon
Harry Lawtey will star as Stuart Sutcliffe

In cinemas… pic.twitter.com/VWTbE3gteA

— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) February 12, 2026

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Akhtar will play Pandit Ravi Shankar in a four-part biopic on the iconic band The Beatles. The films star Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr.

More about Pandit Ravi Shankar

Once Ravi Shankar picked up his sitar and began playing, you could not tear yourself away. The music would begin at a slow pace, but in slow, introspective and fast flashy passages, he would improvise leaving his audience mesmerised, irrespective of where he was playing.

A Bengali Brahmin, he was born Robindra Shankar in 1920 in the holy city of Varanasi, the youngest of four brothers who survived to adulthood, and was brought up by his mother in relative poverty. It wasn’t until eight years after his birth that he met his father, a globe trotting lawyer and writer.

But in 1938  he gave up dance to pick up the sitar and studied the nuances of the instrument under the accomplished, but mercurial, Allauddin Khan for eight long years.