Korla

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Korla Pandit

self (archival)

Age : 77 | Popularity : 3%

Scott Alexander

self

Age : 60 | Popularity : 14%

Harry Edwards

self

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Booker T. Jones

self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Marty Pasetta

self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Carlos Santana

self

Age : 76 | Popularity : 5%

Ben Fong-Torres

self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	John Turner
Production	Associate Producer	Michelle Merker
Department	Role	Name

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