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Chitrangada – A Love StorySYNOPSISKshetra Academy, an Indian dance school located in Petaling Jaya, and founded  by Apsara Ram Gopal, will be presenting an  effusive dance performance  based on the story of Chitrangada. Chitrangada centred around the mythological hero Arjuna and the princess of Manipur who was brought up as a son by her father, and trained as a warrior. Her name was Chitrangada. When Arjuna meets her, he takes her for a boy and is amused by her warrior like heroics. Chitrangada, however, falls in love with him instantaneously. She re-enters the scene decked in feminine garments and offers her love to Arjuna, which he rejects. He tells her that he is under a vow of celibacy. Humiliated, Chitrangada cries out in indignation and appeals to Madana, the God of Love, to make her attractive to Arjuna. The prayer is granted. The scene shifts and Chitrangada appears before Arjuna in full glamour of her new found beauty and is able to win his love. The lovers surrender themselves to the game of love, but eventually the surfeit of love begins to fall on them. Chitrangada becomes aware of the unreality of a love bought with temporarily borrowed physical beauty. Arjuna also, who had by now heard about the warrior-princess, longs to meet her. The time was now ripe for Chitrangada to reveal her true self to her lover. She begs the God of Love Madana to take back his boon, which he does. Bereft of her beauty, Chitrangada appears before Arjuna and discloses her identity. Arjuna is overwhelmed and realizes that in Chitrangada he had at last found the meaning and purpose of his life.Throughout the play, Tagore has coloured the evolution of the character Chitrangada who is indeed a fusion of the Eastern and Western idea of feminism. From a Chitrangada smitten with Arjuna, she changes herself to a beautiful woman just to woo him and in the end realises that she shouldn’t have changed at all as she stands as man’s spiritual and mental equal. We even find changes in Arjuna but they are lightly indicated Chitra and Arjuna are symbolic figures but we can certainly relate to their roles and the message that come from the play. Also, we see that love cannot deny or bypass the reality of the body’s desire, but a love which never learns to go beyond the body knows no fulfillment, no peace and, therefore, unreal.STAGE/SEATING LAYOUT

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