Morning Raga

Morning Raga has everything you expect from it: some great music and camera-work, actors who understate appropriately, and a plot that's sentimental without being slushy. Beyond that, there's nothing much to sink your teeth into. You're shaken some and stirred some, but once you leave the theater the effect ebbs away easily. A little too easily.

Swarnalata (Shabana Azmi) is a Carnatic singer, a woman of healthy ambitions. But when her longtime dream of performing in the city ends abruptly in a road accident, her own ambition becomes repulsive to her. And added to that burden is ....