Hi RMIMers:
He was very active in movies produced in Lahore and was the dancing
guru of Geeta Bali. His year of birth seems to be wrong. Knowing about
his carrer in Lahore, my guess is that he was born in about 1920.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080808/cth1.htm#2
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Disciples pay tributes to Pt Gian Shankar
Our Correspondent
Mohali, August 7
A programme of Indian classical dances was organised by the disciples
of Pandit Gian Shankar at Chandigarh in connection with his first
death anniversary.
Shankar died at the age of 81 due to a heart attack in Mohali last
year. Born in 1899 in Lahore, Shankar migrated to Mumbai in 1947 and
started directing dances there.
He provided dance direction in more than 180 Hindi and Punjabi films,
which includes Kedar Sharma’s “Banware nain”, B.R.Chopra’s “Afsana”,
V.Shantaram’s “Amrit manthan”, and films like “Ahsan”, “Main shadi
karne chala”, “Kaude Shah”, “Pocketmar”, and “Sawan Bhadon”.
