Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma, a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music. He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the hearts of countless Los Angeles housewives with his soulful, hypnotic gaze and theatrical performance of popular tunes and East Indian compositions on the newly developed Hammond B3 organ. In the ’90s he resurfaced as a cult figure with the tiki/lounge music aficionados and ended up immortalized in the film Ed Wood. Often pegged as a “man of mystery,” Korla lived up to that billing when he took an amazing secret with him to his grave in 1998—one that is finally revealed in KORLA.
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Korla Pandit
self (archival)
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Scott Alexander
self
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Harry Edwards
self
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Booker T. Jones
self
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Marty Pasetta
self
Carlos Santana
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Ben Fong-Torres
self
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John Turner Director
United States release September 29, 2015
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English
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United States · September 29, 2015
Theatrical
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