What if one man’s voice could change the way we hear music, eat food and celebrate life?

In this special Money Majlis XTRA episode, Suvo Sarkar is joined by Padma Shri awardee Shankar Mahadevan, singer, composer, Grammy winning frontman of Shakti and co founder of the South Indian resto café brand Malgudi. Together they trace a remarkable journey from a Tamil Iyer childhood in Chembur and veena lessons at five, to becoming the “Shankar” of Shankar Ehsaan Loy and reshaping the sound of modern Hindi cinema with albums like Dil Chahta Hai and Kal Ho Naa Ho.

What does it take to carry the weight of a classical tradition and simultaneously shatter its boundaries? In this special episode of Money Majlis XTRA, recorded in the heart of Kolkata, Suvo Sarkar sits down with tabla maestro and composer Bickram Ghosh for a conversation that moves effortlessly between raga and rhythm, art and entrepreneurship, spiritual alignment and streaming algorithms.