Music Teacher

Still hurting from a heartrending breakup eight years earlier, Beni Madhav Singh (Manav Kaul) is barely existing when MUSIC TEACHER opens. Both his passion for music and his drive for success have long been on hold. Beni lives with his mom (Neena Gupta) and sister (Niharika Lyra Dutt) in the hills of Shimla City. He supports his family with income from teaching music and singing in local venues. When he hears that his great love, Jyotsna (Amita Bagchi), a former music student who is now a famous singer in Mumbai, is coming to town for a one-night concert, Beni is shattered. It’s only another, and the latest, reason for him to experience the powerful regret that undermines his life. Flashbacks of the beginning, middle, and ending of his early relationship deepen his pain. A tentative, budding relationship with a lonely but attractive neighbor is a casualty of Beni’s unease at the prospect of seeing Jyotsna again. On the night of concert, though he fights the desire to see her, Beni is compelled to the wings of the concert stage where Jyotsna sees him, mid-song, and their meeting is inevitable.