Early in the film, Shankar travels by train to the Madhya Pradesh town of Maihar, to see his father-in-law and esteemed music teacher (or guru), Allauddin Khan,[REF] known affectionately as "Baba" [REF].
According to Worth, the emotional highpoint of filming was when Shankar visited his spiritual guru,[REF] named Tat Baba [REF].