Morning Raga (2004)

Morning Raga is about the meeting of worlds. It is a story that brings the modern and traditional together, unites the past with present, Carnatic music with Western music, as never before ... See full summary »

Director:

Mahesh Dattani

Writer:

Mahesh Dattani (story)

Stars:

Shabana Azmi, Prakash Rao, Lillete Dubey

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Shabana Azmi	...	Swarnlatha
Prakash Rao	...	Abhinay
Lillete Dubey	...	Mrs. Kapoor
Perizaad Zorabian	...	Pinkie
Shaleen Sharma	...	Balaji
Vivek Mashru	...	Munna
Nasser	...	Abhinay's father
T. Vijay	...	Mr. Shastri
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam	...	Appa Rau
Ranjani Ramakrishnan	...	Vaishnavi
Sanjay Swaroop	...	Manager
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Elahe Hiptoola	...	Crying Customer
Vijay Raaz

Storyline

Morning Raga is about the meeting of worlds. It is a story that brings the modern and traditional together, unites the past with present, Carnatic music with Western music, as never before in the history of humanity, fate and coincidence with individual choices. It is a story of our times where our worlds are interacting with each other.

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Taglines:

A meetings of worlds

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [in] (English)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi English Telugu

Release Date:

18 March 2005 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Jagadodharana"
Music composer: Amit Heri
Singer: Bombay Jayashri, Ramnath
Raga: Sindhibhairavi
Talam: Adi
Music composer: Amit Heri
Singer: Bombay Jayashri
Raga: Natal
Talam: Desadi
Music composer: Mani Sharma
Singer: Kalayani Menon

User Reviews

A fine mixture of carnatic music and funky band music

This film is the confluence of older and younger generation, of traditional music and contemporary music. Born out of a tragedy of a fatal accident in which Swarana (shabana Azmi) and her dear friend and their sons travel in which the friend and swarna's son die. Swarna is a mature carnatic music vocalist and her friend vaishnavi is a violinist. The survivor guilt of Swarna keeps her aloof from the outside world for 20 years and then vaishanavi's son Abhi, a modern music band leader wants to incorporate swarna's music into the band After some trauma Swarna agrees.

The story and direction is by the acclaimed theatre personality Mahesh Dattani. The carnatic music pieces are excellent and I am not an expert on modern music. The final piece, which is a fusion of carnatic musical piece "Thaye Yasodha" in Todi raga and the band music with heavy percussion, is excellent. In the final carnatic piece the Music Director cleverly used more of "swara" delineation and "thanam" pieces instead of complete "sahitya". The acting by Azmi is as usual superb and the actors, who portrayed the role of Abhi and his girl friend Pinky, give good support. There is a delightful cameo role by Lillete Dubey, (as Pinky's mother ), another acclaimed theater personality.

Once again an off beat film, off from the garish dressed women protagonists and unbelievable fight sequences by the male protagonist and loud music of the contemporary Indian films..

But there are some cinematic clichés. The accident is supposed to heave been caused by Pinky's ever drunken father.. Pinky seems to have learnt carnatic music in a few days or months from Swarna In spite of these clichés the film is an excellent film.