Guide produced and acted by Devanand is an outstanding movie. It conveys an universal message valid for all time. Every time you look at it you feel emotional and a new message is felt. Devanand and Waheeda belong to a conservative, orthodox superstitious society.   Raju is a guide and is single. Rosy is emotional and looks for love.  Man or a woman is a love bird. Rosy looks for love, pines for a deep passion which is absent from Marco. Marco is unemotional and careless in expressing love. As a result Rosy is drawn towards anyone who reciprocates and is available. This is a great lesson. No matter how intellectual you are you must love. Without love man is dead. This message is conveyed various times in the movie.

Every time you look at the movie you are moved .the movie is 35 years old and still new when you look at it. Rosy is very emotional.  She pleads with her husband for love. Marcos is outrageous and slaps Rosy. He doesn’t care for her.  So she begins to love Raju, the guide.

When a woman is Spartan like thinker she still loves but she calls it Rakhee love.  Once she calls it safe love she begins loving.   Its all non sense. When there is true love with her husband she will never need a guide or a Rakhee brother. She loves her children with all her heart until they leave her and create a vacuum in her life.  Life is mysterious.

Music is wonderful in the movie. A bell rings when you hear the music. Love with music is eternal. However real bonds of nature – husband/wife, own brother and sister, your own children – are lasting. Any other love is fragile. It has to ultimately break. Woman is weak at heart.  No matter how many times Marcos disowned her she is willing to go back to him.

The ending is appropriate to the present drought conditions… You cannot ignore the movie. No matter what you are doing your heart is warmed up and the movie is breathtakingly beautiful. Ending of the movie is very touching. Swamiji and rain and fasting are very realistic.  It could be a coincidence yet they believed   Swamiji created the rain. The death of Swamiji gave a surprisingly magical effect to the movie.

Morning raga- 2004 is an artistic movie based in a SOuth Indian village in Andhra Pradesh.

It is a scintillatingly realist movie. It reminds us of religion and philosophy. The happy family singing family away to glory is all of a sudden broken apart. Shabana and Vaishnavi get into an accident and Vaishnavi and Shabana’s sons are dead. It shows how mysterious Gods ways are. No matter how one struggles, God is the final judge. One has to believe in God. If God defies, one has to go back to the normal life. Life goes on no matter what happens. A normal healthy person should get back to their life within 10 to 13 days. That is God.

Vaishnavi and shabna are seperated.

Shabana is at her best. She is so individualist and carries herself so well.  She is very pretty and sings well. Music is meditation. She over comes her agony by singing.  John Milton in his ‘Lallagro” portrays a woman who is happy yet frivolous.  The woman is portrayed as a nun and full of pain. She is more aware of the philosophy and its ups and downs than the one is happy. Pain becomes part and parcel 0f the nun and the nun begins to bear it.

When one is sees the serious movie – The Morning Raga, one is reminded of Bhagvat Gita. Lord Krishna says  ‘karmanye vadhu karasthu maha phaleshu kadachana, ma karma phalahethu bhur mate sangosthva akarmanee…  In the above words Krishna says we have a right to perform. That is our duty. The result is God’s wish. Yet one has to go on working and wait for God’s reward.            

It is a bilingual movie with telugu and english.  Pinky and Abhinay join the music group. All children in this generation ignore our  deep meditative Indian music and ape the Wesern music and habits. A good contrast between village life and city life. In the village one gets up has a bath and put the kolam at the entrance sqat on the ground eat and sing lovely songs. These things are heartwarming. The lovely greenery is most soothening. Pinkys father is a drunkard, beats up his wife and dies driving after a heavy drink. Though a foriegner she is deeply disturbed. In conclusion the movie shakes you up.

Shabana is simple yet very forceful and clinches the show. She speaks with her eyes. The way she teaches carnatic music shows her greatness. On the whole the most powerful person is Shabana. The audiense miss her when the movie is over. One wants to see more of her. The heroes in the movie are not all that prominent.