Morning Raga

Morning Raga is an Indian film with most of the dialogue in English, released in 2004. It was directed by Mahesh Dattani and starred Bollywood actresses Shabana Azmi and Perizaad Zorabian, and Telugu actor Prakash Kovelamudi. The film is unusual for its understated acting and extensive use of English, albeit with a generous smattering of Godavari Telugu. Prasad Devineni and Shobu Yarlagadda of Arka Media Works were Line producers for the movie.

The story is set deep in the Andhra Pradesh countryside, in the West Godavari. Swarnalata Shabana Azmi is a classically trained Carnatic singer who lost her son and best friend, Vaishnavi in a bus accident. The story reopens after a period ofyears, when Vaishnavis son, Abhinay Prakash Kovelamudi, plans to leave his business of composing jingles with a desire to start a music troupe to compose an everlasting music just like the Charminar, and with these plans returns to his home in his village. His plan irks his father Nasser who wants him to look after the ancestral lands in the village. On the day of Death Anniversary of Vaishnavi, Abhinay spots Swarnalatha, and hears her song Pibare Ramarasam in the temple. When Swarnalatha leaves the temple, Abhinay stops her, saying, you knew my mother and follows her. The duo reach the bridge when a car comes and hits Abhinay, and the car was being driven by Pinky Perizaad Zorabian. Swarnalatha screams and reaches her home, with theyears old guilt in her mind that her one step on the bridge caused the accident. Here, the Car gets some glitch and Pinky is compelled to stay for the night in the village. Next morning both Abhinay and Pinky set for Hyderabad to seek the perfect artists for the proposed troop, and they get a guitarist and a drummer Balaji Shaleen Sharma. All land up at Pinkys boutique whose environment irritates Abhinay but somehow Pinky consoles him and the practices start, with a few opportunities coming up their way, but their rockband does not receive the respect as Abhinay had expected. After a few days Abhinay receives the violin his mother used to play when she was alive. He returns to the village to return the violin to Swarnalatha, saying that both her voice and the sound of the violin are complementary to each other and one cannot exist without one another, and invites her to sing with their troop, for which she refuses saying that she wont come to the village and returns the violin. Swarnalathas

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