It is a byzantine music formulae. The excerpt belongs to the first mode (called echos a). This formulae has a name "eso thematismos", literally 'internal theming'.
A short jati (phrase) played on the mridangam, a percussion instrument used in carnatic music of india. It is a part of a long mridangam solo. The mridangam is tuned to c#.
Sad cinematic background music recorded in audacity on a yamaha ew300 keyboard using piano pad voice and limited with a soft limiter in audacity of -5db.