(Saa Virahe' -Radha's Separation)- The first word of a composition 'Saa virahe tava denaa' by JAYADEVA. The legendary composer famous for his peotic compositions in Sanskrit, known as Gita Govindam" and also known as "Astha Padi", representing The Räsa Léla of Sri Krishna with Rädha and the Gopicas ! known as The eight lovers of Sri Krishna) 
Aladdin is a violin maestro.
He runs a music shop for livelihood, taking
leave from his profession of performing violin.
Since times have changed and there are not many takers for
classical music he teaches his son to play violin.
Hussein a child prodigy......
Who has mastered the art of playing Violin at an early childhood
under the tutelage of his father Maestro Allauddin.
One day during the holidays of Ramadan by evening
after his violin practice, he joins his friends to play
in their neighborhood.
While chasing after the ball heunmindfully enters
the main Bazaar street, where a riot has broken and
the miscreants were seen looting,killing and burning down the shops.
Hussein in his eagerness to retrieve the ball
gets caught in the riot and one of the rioters,
finding him in his way,gets a hold on him and
lifting him in to the air throws him on the steps of Mosque.
Right away Hussein starts bleeding to death.
Soon a rain starts to pour down washing
away his blood forming in to tiny flowing
rivulets finally joining the river that goes
through the city. While the sun setting,
an evening prayer and breaking fast goes on in the mosque.
At the city's burial ground.......
Among many of the tombs built for the dead,
the orphan children gather during the night,
a place which they call home.
Hussein is also seen taking shelter amongst the buried
sat next to a tomb.
As the day sets in, he starts on a journey......
Traveling far and long for days
together, he reaches a deserted
city colored in Pink.
As he goes around the city
he finds the walls of houses
painted with murals of people singing and
After wards he leaves
the city wandering to
the country side.
On a hot sunny day,
tired and thirsty;
his ears cache a song coming from afar in the landscape.
Hoping to find some water,
He reaches there to see an Old Seer Sat under
a big Papal Tree surrounded by sheep and
Shepard boys was singing a beautiful hymn. (A song rendered in evoking gods). Seeing the boy
in an exhausted condition, he stops his singing
as as Hussein makes a sign for water, he points
him to a house near by and tells him to go to there
saying that he would also get what he is seeking.
way to setting, Hussein
approaches the house,
there he comes across an
old lady, Sidheshwari, who is milking the cow.
He asks her to give him something to quench his thirst. Sidheshwari gives him milk
to drink and inquires after him,
up on finding that he is an orphan,
her daughter Vasantha, a young woman
takes a liking to him and tells her mother, that
They name him Sidharth and soon
the boy is a happy child as he is loved
and nourished and cared for.
Sidheshwari,whose husband had left on
a pilgrimage years back and never
returned, her young Daughter Vasantha
are the only ones left of a great and
well known family of traditional
classical musicians.
In her younger days Sidheshwari was very
well known for singing and she has taught
her daughter to play violin,
who is a virtuoso.
One day Vasantha, in order to replace her old violin,
which is broken, visits the shop of the Old music Maestro.
On her way to the shop in the streets she is confronted by
a bird catcher, who forces her to buy a rare beautiful bird,
kept in a cage. She feels so distressed for the bird
that she offers to buys it, despite the warnings of
the old maestro. This whole affair annoys the old
maestro and he laments that, he had to put up with
this cruel sight of birds being kept in cages every day and
when he is old enough and nearing death.
He prays for the of change the cruel heart of the bird catcher and
give freedom to the poor birds, who are caged.
He scolds the bird catcher and tells him to get reformed and stop the
cruelty to birds,suggesting that he could choose some other
profession and stop troubling his customers.
The maestro shows her around
his shop. She looks at a beautiful
violin kept in a glass case, while
she inquires about it, a well
dressed young man by the name Rahul, who has been looking
around for a while reaches for the violin and takes it out of the case,
pleased by its beauty he approaches the maestro
asking for its price.Taken in by this sudden event
the young lady protests to the young man, that in
fact she was inquiring after it and she is going to
buy it.
his shop. She looks at a beautiful
violin kept in a glass case, while
she inquires about it, a well
dressed young man by the name Rahul, who has been looking
around for a while reaches for the violin and takes it out of the case,
pleased by its beauty he approaches the maestro asking for its price.Taken in by this sudden event
the young lady protests to the young man, that in
fact she was inquiring after it and she is going to
buy it.
The young man responds saying that since he got it first,
it is his right to buy and with that they both start fighting with
each other, over who has the right to buy it.
The maestro finds him self being amused by the fighting couple
but politely tells them that the violin is not for sale.
While both insist that they would like to buy it.
He tells them that....
the violin is not for sale and it belonged to
his son,who is no more and once,
he is used to play it every day and
in remembrance of him, he had kept it preserved.
He tells them that there are many beautiful
violins,any of which they could buy and
he inquires after both of them as to why
they would want to buy a violin. the young man explains that all
his life he had wanted to learn
playing the violin......
but he could not afford one,
now is the time for him since....
he is gainfully employed....
so he could afford to learn.
While the young lady tells him that since,
her old violin broke,
she needs a new one to continue practice.
The old maestro finding out, that she is the daughter of
the famed singer Sidheshwari,whom he knew very well,
becomes thought full for a while and tells both of them that
there is one way, where both of them could have it.
He tells them that, though he would not sell
the violin...
yet he could give it to both of them on
a condition that the young man chooses to
learn from her and in turn
she be willing to teach him.
He also tells them that when they have no need for it or
if they stop playing it, then they should return the violin back to him.
He tells them that he is willing to giving it to them,
only because he wanted the violin to be played every day,
which would give him some consolation to the fact that
his son used to play it every day.
They both accept to this condition,
though grudgingly and Rahul, happy at
the prospect of finding a teacher,
promises to visit her house for his violin classes.
Soon after her arrival at home....
Vasanta shows the violin to Siddhartha.
He instantly takes a great liking
to the violin and soon becomes
inseparable with it.
To every one's surprise he plays
divinely and each time he played
the violin, the house would lit with
a golden hue spreading around.
There lives in theirs neighborhood....
though grudgingly and Rahul, happy at
the prospect of finding a teacher,
promises to visit her house for his violin classes.
Soon after her arrival at home....
Vasanta shows the violin to Siddhartha.
He instantly takes a great liking
to the violin and soon becomes
inseparable with it.
To every one's surprise he plays
divinely and each time he played
the violin, the house would lit with
a golden hue spreading around.
There lives in theirs neighborhood....
An old retired school teacher married to his young wife
with no children. Not a day passes by with out her
picking at the old man and She would be cursing
her poor parents saying that all they could do is
nothing better than, just find an old man for
a son in law. The old teacher, though gentle, is
a resigned person. But as he starts to listen to the violin
being played at his neighbors......
he finds life full of joy and often would exclaim,
that God is merciful for having brought the happiness back
in to his life and he could expect nothing better.
But his wife,who is a spiteful lady, seeing him happy,
would curse him and also the neighbors, saying that,
the music has brought ruin to her life and all that
the old man does is sit and exclaim, like a madman.
with no children. Not a day passes by with out her picking at the old man and She would be cursing
her poor parents saying that all they could do is
nothing better than, just find an old man for
a son in law. The old teacher, though gentle, is
a resigned person. But as he starts to listen to the violin
being played at his neighbors......
he finds life full of joy and often would exclaim,
that God is merciful for having brought the happiness back
in to his life and he could expect nothing better.
But his wife,who is a spiteful lady, seeing him happy,
would curse him and also the neighbors, saying that,
the music has brought ruin to her life and all that
the old man does is sit and exclaim, like a madman.
Surrounded by happiness and merry, Rahul and Vasantha fall in love
with each other and soon they get married.
As wished by Sidheshwari, Rahul comes
to stay with them at their house.
On his first night, while Siddhartha plays the violin.
Rahul is taken aback at seeing his wife as some one
divine and he finds him self being held back from
reaching his wife. He suddenly starts feeling that
the music played by Siddhartha is
what making him helpless and vulnerable.
Disturbed by such a happening he believes, the violin has
some kind of power which is probably making him imagine things.
He suggests to both Sidheshwari and Vasantha,
that now they have to run a family and think of future,
it would be better for them to be realistic and stop indulging in music.
His decision makes everyone in the family sad,
since now he is the master of the house,
both mother and daughter give in to his proposal......
that the violin should be returned
as part of the agreement with maestro.
The young couples take the violin back to
the old maestro and tell him that
Now they are married,
it would be difficult for them to continue with music,
since they will have to be bothered with running a family.
When they return back home, they discover that Siddhartha had
left their house and the bird too gone.
The next day their neighbor,
the old school teacher is found dead while he is asleep.
The incident saddens them all but soon
they have something to cheer up,
as the young couple discover,that
they are going to have a baby.
On the day of the baby boy's birth they all witness
the same phenomenon of the golden hue spreading
in their house which they think is a good omen, and
they name him as Siddhartha.
Their life is filled with joy as they see Siddhartha growing.
One day while listening to the violin being played on the Radio,
Siddhartha is so taken in by the beauty of the music,
he inquires about it with his grand mother and
up on learning that they were a family of musicians and
his mother is an exponent of violin,
He tells her that he would like to learn playing
it. Sidheshwari enthralled by the prospects of
her grand son continuing their tradition.
That night she is visited by a vision and
remembers the young boy, who once lived
in her house.
Sidheshwari sees the resemblance of him in her Grand son
Siddhartha.
She determines to get the same violin for her grand son to play and
son to play and she plans a visit to the old musician
along with her daughter, son in law and grand son.
The maestro Aladdin recognizes, the resemblance of Sidhartha
to his dead son Hussein and he talks about it. Sidheshwari,
narrates the story of the boy who stayed with them long back and
they all discover that Hussein is the one who had reincarnated as
Siddhartha.
They are overjoyed by this divine miracle and
As they hear a commotion breaking out in the streets,
they walk out to see that.
A saint with his followers is seen along with the bird catcher,
Who is now in monk's robes freeing the birds from cages.
They all remark that it is such a beautiful sight
to see all those birds free and probably
that the bird catcher is now a
transformed man.
Sidheshwari, Maestro Aladdin
and the young couple with
Siddhartha approach the saint
and his disciples, ask his blessing for young Siddhartha.
Instead the saint along with his disciples pays
his obeisance to Siddhartha....
while they all look at him surprised by
such an unusual happening,
the saint tells them that,
the boy is none other than the Bodhisattva reincarnated and
they are all so fortunately blessed to be witnessing it.
He tells them that,
Bodhisatwa is born on this earth as Sidhartha
to bless us all by spreading love and compassion
through his divine music and that they
are so fortunate, for the master has chosen to
grace them with his birth, as a member of their family.
Now Siddhartha, sat under
the shade of papal tree
surrounded by the sheep and
shepherds is playing his violin.
We can all listen to the divine music floating down and reaching
our ears.......
