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Morning Raga (2004)

Morning Raga poster
Directed by
Mahesh Dattani
Genre
romance
Country
India
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
U
Rating
9.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Three people from Telugu backgrounds have each been devastated by past tragedies. They are brought together by fate and their shared love for classical Indian Carnatic music and contemporary music.

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What happens

Morning Raga is a 2004 Indian English-language musical drama film written and directed by Mahesh Dattani and produced by K. Raghavendra Rao under Arka Media Works. It stars Shabana Azmi, Prakash Kovelamudi, Perizaad Zorabian, Lillete Dubey and Nassar. The film has an extensive use of English dialogue, in addition to the Godavari dialect of Telugu language. The film focuses on three main characters — all Telugu — whose lives have each been ruined by past tragedies and how they are united by circumstance. These three are all connected by a love of music, and through this, the film explores elements of classical Indian Carnatic music, the raga, and contemporary Indian music. The film was also dubbed into Telugu as Ragam. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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