This is the result of our dabbling with lighting during a short workshop at school. We selected the, pitch-black-and-eerie-at-night, Queen's palace at the Sarkhej Roza as our muse. It was decided to tell the [made-up] story of a queen waiting for her king to grace her palace; A king who doesn't show up and invites her wrath.
We decided to select our themes from among the nine rasas (roughly, essence or emotion), and corresponding bhAvas (moods) of Indian aesthetic theory.
A rasa denotes an essential mental state and is the dominant emotional theme of a work of art or the primary feeling that is evoked in the person that views, reads or hears such a work.
Bharata Muni enunciated the eight rasas in the Nātyasāstra, an ancient work of dramatic theory, written during the period between 200 BC and 200 AD. A ninth rasa was added by later authors.
The colors we selected to express these rasas, were more compliant with Western sensibilities, than the ones prescribed in the Nātyasāstra.
The Queen's palace, in the evening.
Śṛngāram rasa [Love, Attractiveness]
Rati bhAva [Love]
The queen decks up in anticipation of the king's arrival...
Credits: Ankit Kumar, Devika Gharge, Farzan Dalal, Mansi Thakkar, Muadh Solkar, Mudita Pasari, Prerna Sunderraman, Pritesh Maru, Rahul Sahu, Ritwick Nandi, Sudha Palepu, Tanvi Sonavane and Taseer Shaikh
