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September 5, 2007, 12:45 AM
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Film: Morning Raga
Showtime on Star Movies: Starts @ 7:05 pm on Wednesday, 5th September and repeats @ 8:50 am on 6th September.
Tagline: A story of three lives struck by tragedy, united by destiny and redefined by music.
Cast: Shabana Azmi (Swarnalatha), Perizaad Zorabian (Pinkie), Prakash Rao (Abhinay), Naaser (Abhinay's father), Lillete Dubey (Mrs. Kapoor) and Subramaniam Dharmavarapu (Appa Rao).
Plot Summary: Morning Raga is a musical about a bus crash. The story begins with people from a small village happily boarding a bus to the city for a musical event. On the way, the bus crashes into a car and goes off a bridge, killing many of the passengers. The drama shifts to 20 years in the future and the city of Hyderabad, where Abhinay (Prakash Rao), whose mother died in the crash, is having a career crisis. He decides to give up writing meaningless commercial jingles and form a music group.
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Then the coincidences begin. Back in his home village, he is almost hit by a car driven by a beautiful young woman known as Pinkie (Perizaad Zorabian). He takes her home to Dad while her car is repaired overnight. This is fate, because Pinkie's father died in the same bus accident. Abhinay also has an encounter with Swarnalatha (Shabana Azmi), an older woman who was on the bus. Swarnalatha, whose son died in the accident, was a close friend of Abhinay's mother, so she suffers from double survivor guilt. Both Pinkie and Swarnalatha happen to be very good singers and, Abhinay realizes, would make excellent additions to his new band.
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The screenplay doesn't have a shred of subtlety. The strange man who talks to his cow, apparently intended as comic relief, isn't very funny. But the performances of Carnatic music, Southern India's classical form, are heaven. Still, beautiful compositions and photography by Rajiv Menon, a director in his own right, are a pleasure, evocatively bringing out the colors of the countryside.
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Awards: It was chosen as India's unofficial entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2005. Director of the film Mahesh Dattani won the Best Artistic Contribution Award for the brilliant use of music as a major dramatic element by the director at Cairo International Film Festival. And Shabana Azmi won the Screen Weekly Award in the category of Best Perforamance in an Indian Film in English.
Film: Morning Raga
Showtime on Star Movies: Starts @ 7:05 pm on Wednesday, 5th September and repeats @ 8:50 am on 6th September.
Tagline: A story of three lives struck by tragedy, united by destiny and redefined by music.
Cast: Shabana Azmi (Swarnalatha), Perizaad Zorabian (Pinkie), Prakash Rao (Abhinay), Naaser (Abhinay's father), Lillete Dubey (Mrs. Kapoor) and Subramaniam Dharmavarapu (Appa Rao).
Plot Summary: Morning Raga is a musical about a bus crash. The story begins with people from a small village happily boarding a bus to the city for a musical event. On the way, the bus crashes into a car and goes off a bridge, killing many of the passengers. The drama shifts to 20 years in the future and the city of Hyderabad, where Abhinay (Prakash Rao), whose mother died in the crash, is having a career crisis. He decides to give up writing meaningless commercial jingles and form a music group.
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Then the coincidences begin. Back in his home village, he is almost hit by a car driven by a beautiful young woman known as Pinkie (Perizaad Zorabian). He takes her home to Dad while her car is repaired overnight. This is fate, because Pinkie's father died in the same bus accident. Abhinay also has an encounter with Swarnalatha (Shabana Azmi), an older woman who was on the bus. Swarnalatha, whose son died in the accident, was a close friend of Abhinay's mother, so she suffers from double survivor guilt. Both Pinkie and Swarnalatha happen to be very good singers and, Abhinay realizes, would make excellent additions to his new band.
18953
The screenplay doesn't have a shred of subtlety. The strange man who talks to his cow, apparently intended as comic relief, isn't very funny. But the performances of Carnatic music, Southern India's classical form, are heaven. Still, beautiful compositions and photography by Rajiv Menon, a director in his own right, are a pleasure, evocatively bringing out the colors of the countryside.
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Awards: It was chosen as India's unofficial entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the year 2005. Director of the film Mahesh Dattani won the Best Artistic Contribution Award for the brilliant use of music as a major dramatic element by the director at Cairo International Film Festival. And Shabana Azmi won the Screen Weekly Award in the category of Best Perforamance in an Indian Film in English.