Renowned sitar player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan passed away.

Renowned sitar player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan — the last survivor of the "Sitar Trinity" of India along with the late Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan — died.Conferred with the Padmashri, Padma Bhushan and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards, Khan hailed from the Indore Gharana and is credited for innovating the unique music style of "Jafferkhani Baaj".

Born in 1929 in Jawra, Madhya Pradesh, during his music career spanning over six decades, Khan played the sitar for various Bollywood films, including Mughal-E-Azam, Kohinoor, Goonj Uthi Shehnai and Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje, among many others.

TO MAKE A BIOPIC ON JAYA…

Legendary Telugu Filmmaker, Dasari Narayana Rao who has been in the industry for four decades announced that he will be working on Jayalalithaa’s biopic. This 151 films old director told a leading daily that he has started penning the script for the film, which would be a bilingual in Telugu and Tamil.