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Raised as a boy and trained as a warrior, Chitra asks the gods Madana and Vasanta for beauty to win Arjuna, who is bound by a vow of celibacy. She later rejects his love for her transformed appearance and must reveal her identity and seek acceptance as herself.
Tagore’s Bengali dance-drama retells the Mahabharata story of Chitrangada, the mythological princess of Manipur and one of Arjuna’s wives.
An ascetic who rejects nature as an obstacle to wisdom helps an orphaned girl; her death teaches him that wisdom comes through recognizing humanity’s place in nature’s cycles, not through renunciation.
A symbolic, mystic play about God's secret dealings with the human heart, loosely drawing on the Buddhist story of King Kush from the Mahāvastu.
In a kingdom where a greedy ruler forces his subjects to mine gold, Nandini—who wears red oleander flowers for her beloved Ranjan—stands apart from the machinery of extraction and power.
Amal, an ill child confined to his adoptive uncle's home, speaks with passers-by and imagines becoming a royal postman after a post office opens nearby. As the king's physician arrives, Amal dies while Sudha brings him flowers.
Ratnakara, a robber chief, abandons violence after releasing a girl he had captured for sacrifice. When his men leave him, he wanders in the forest, utters a spontaneous verse after seeing a hunter kill birds, and seeks Saraswati; she reveals that the girl he spared was herself and blesses him to become the poet Valmiki.
Raised as a boy and trained as a warrior, Chitra asks the gods Madana and Vasanta for beauty to win Arjuna, who is bound by a vow of celibacy. She later rejects his love for her transformed appearance and must reveal her identity and seek acceptance as herself.
Tagore’s Bengali dance-drama retells the Mahabharata story of Chitrangada, the mythological princess of Manipur and one of Arjuna’s wives.
An ascetic who rejects nature as an obstacle to wisdom helps an orphaned girl; her death teaches him that wisdom comes through recognizing humanity’s place in nature’s cycles, not through renunciation.
A symbolic, mystic play about God's secret dealings with the human heart, loosely drawing on the Buddhist story of King Kush from the Mahāvastu.
In a kingdom where a greedy ruler forces his subjects to mine gold, Nandini—who wears red oleander flowers for her beloved Ranjan—stands apart from the machinery of extraction and power.
Amal, an ill child confined to his adoptive uncle's home, speaks with passers-by and imagines becoming a royal postman after a post office opens nearby. As the king's physician arrives, Amal dies while Sudha brings him flowers.
Ratnakara, a robber chief, abandons violence after releasing a girl he had captured for sacrifice. When his men leave him, he wanders in the forest, utters a spontaneous verse after seeing a hunter kill birds, and seeks Saraswati; she reveals that the girl he spared was herself and blesses him to become the poet Valmiki.