This film is on the 'Tarana' gharana of Indian classical music. A Tarana Bandish normally does not use words instead it employs men monic syllables. Some of these are borrowed from tabla bols,some from the moment of her instruments. It has been suggested that these syllables may have religious origin both from Hindu and Sufi faith.
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In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking.
The wind swirls up dust in a desert landscape. The picture is followed by images of clouds racing over the skyline of a city, of reflections on an expanse of water, of waves breaking over an embankment and of row upon row of burning candles.
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison.