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He had married Amala Shankar and they had a son Ananda Shankar and a daughter Mamata Shankar . While Ananda Shankar was a musician and music composer like his uncle, Ravi Shankar, Mamata Shankar is a dancer like her parents and is also a noted actress, working in films by Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen . Uday Shankar also made a film on dance entitled ''Kalpana''. He established a dance center at Almora , on the foothills of the Himalayas , and invited Shankaran Nambudirei for Kathakali , Kandappa Pillai for Bharatanatyam , Amobi Singh for Manipuri and Ustad Allauddin Khan for music. Uday was awarded '' Padma Vibhushan '' by the Government Of India and the '' Desikottama '' by the Visva-Bharati University . |
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