From Natyashastra to Navarasa: Reading the Rasa Framework in the Songs of ‘Lagaan’
This blog is a part of the assignment of Paper 109: Literary Theory & Criticism and Indian Aesthetics
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Name: Kruti.B.Vyas
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Batch: 2025 - 2027
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Paper Name: Literary Theory & Criticism and Indian Aesthetics
Paper No.: Paper 109
Paper Code: 22402
Unit 3 & 4: Indian Poetics
Topic: From Natyashastra to Navarasa: Reading the Rasa Framework in the Songs of ‘Lagaan’
Submitted To: Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
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Paper 109: Indian Aesthetics & Literary Theory Name: Kruti B. Vyas Topic: From Natyashastra to Navarasa in ‘Lagaan’ • The Rasa Sutra • The Nine Rasas and Their Sthayi Bhavas (Table) • Rasaesthetics and the 'Gut Brain' A Detailed Analysis • Summary Table of Songs, Rasas, and Ragas • Ghanan Ghanan – Adbhuta Rasa (Wonder) • Mitwa – Karuna Rasa (Sorrow and Compassion) • Chale Chalo – Vira Rasa (Heroism and Valour) • O Palanhare – Shanta Rasa (Peace and Spiritual Surrender) • Radha Kaise Na Jale – Shringar Rasa (Love and Beauty) Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar UniversityTable of Contents
II. Bharata Muni and the Theory of Rasa
IV. The Natyashastra and Indian Cinema
V. Navarasa in the Songs of Lagaan
From Natyashastra to Navarasa:
Reading the Rasa Framework in the Songs of Lagaan
Indian Poetics - Units 3 & 4
ABSTRACT
This assignment examines Ashutosh Gowariker’s Hindi film Lagaan (2001) through the aesthetic framework of Bharata Muni’s Rasa Theory as codified in the Natyashastra. The central argument is that the film’s songs function not as mere entertainment interludes but as formally constructed emotional units that evoke, develop, and resolve the nine Rasas - the Navarasa - described by Bharata Muni over two millennia ago. Drawing on Chaudhury’s foundational reading of the Rasa Sutra, Patankar’s inquiry into the theory’s modern relevance, Schechner’s concept of Rasaesthetics, Ibkar’s study of the Natyashastra in Indian cinema, and Sailaxmy and Prabakaran’s direct analysis of Navarasa in Lagaan’s songs, this paper demonstrates that the film’s musical architecture is thoroughly Natyashastric in its logic and aesthetic ambition. The paper further argues that the progressive arrangement of Rasas across the film’s narrative constitutes a Rasa Vinyasa - an orchestration of emotional states - that culminates in the Ananda, or aesthetic bliss, that Bharata Muni identified as the highest purpose of dramatic art.
Keywords:
Natyashastra, Rasa Theory, Navarasa, Lagaan, Indian Cinema, Bharata Muni, Vibhava, Anubhava, Sthayi Bhava, Vyabhicharibhava, Ras aesthetics, Rasa Vinyasa, Ananda
Research Question
To what extent do the musical compositions of A.R. Rahman in the film Lagaan function as a modern application of Bharata Muni’s Rasa Sutra, and how does the film’s Rasa Vinyasa (emotional architecture) facilitate the transition from individual emotion to universal aesthetic bliss (Ananda)?
Hypothesis
This paper hypothesizes that Lagaan’s songs are not mere cinematic interludes but are formally constructed Natyashastric units; by aligning specific Ragas and rhythms with the Navarasa framework, the film successfully bridges the gap between ancient Sanskrit poetics and contemporary global cinema, proving that the Rasa Theory remains a physiologically and aesthetically valid tool for analyzing modern Indian media.
I. Introduction
One of the most pressing questions in the field of Indian literary and aesthetic theory concerns not the historical validity of classical texts but their continued applicability to contemporary cultural production. R.B. Patankar, writing in 1980, posed this question with characteristic directness: does the Rasa theory have any modern relevance? (Patankar). Four decades later, with the global success of Indian cinema and the growing scholarly interest in non-Western aesthetic frameworks, the question deserves a more concrete answer than abstract philosophical argument can provide. This assignment offers such an answer by reading Ashutosh Gowariker’s -
Lagaan (2001) - one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Hindi films ever produced - through the lens of Bharata Muni’s Rasa Theory.
Lagaan is set in the colonial India of 1893. Its protagonist, Bhuvan, a young farmer from the village of Champaner, challenges the arrogant British officer Captain Russell to a cricket match: if the villagers win, they will be exempted from the oppressive land tax (lagaan) for three years; if they lose, they will pay triple. The narrative moves through love, sacrifice, heroism, sorrow, wonder, and finally the joy of collective victory. These are not merely dramatic emotions - they are, as this assignment will demonstrate, Rasas in the precise technical sense that Bharata Muni specified in the Natyashastra.
Alisha Ibkar has argued that every dimension of Indian cinema - from its performance styles and narrative structures to its musical compositions and the emotional responses it evokes in viewers - is rooted in the Rasa theory and the broader aesthetics of the Natyashastra (Ibkar). If Ibkar’s claim is correct, then -
Lagaan’s songs, composed by A.R. Rahman with meticulous attention to classical Ragas and emotional registers, are not simply melodic pleasures but Rasa-vehicles operating within a two-thousand-year-old aesthetic tradition. Sailaxmy and Prabakaran’s 2025 study of Navarasa in Lagaan’s songs provides the most direct empirical support for this claim, confirming that each song in the film can be mapped to one or more of the nine Rasas (Sailaxmy and Prabakaran).
This assignment proceeds in the following order: it first outlines the foundational concepts of Rasa Theory as articulated by Bharata Muni and interpreted by subsequent scholars; it then examines the relationship between music and Rasa in the Natyashastra tradition; it proceeds to situate Indian cinema within this tradition; it then undertakes a detailed Navarasa-based analysis of selected songs from Lagaan; it reflects on the Rasa architecture of the film as a whole; and it concludes by returning to Patankar’s question, now armed with textual and analytical evidence.
II. Bharata Muni and the Theory of Rasa: Foundational Concepts
The Natyashastra of Bharata Muni - composed approximately between the second century BCE and the second century CE - is one of the most comprehensive and philosophically ambitious texts on drama, music, dance, and aesthetics in any literary tradition. Yashoda, in her comprehensive study of the text, describes it as covering every conceivable dimension of theatrical performance, from the construction of playhouses and the training of actors to the theory of emotion and the classification of dramatic characters (Yashoda). At the heart of this vast system lies the theory of Rasa.
The foundational statement of Rasa Theory is contained in the celebrated Rasa Sutra, formulated by Bharata in the sixth chapter of the Natyashastra: Vibhavaānubhavạvyabhicāribhāvasaṃyogadrasaṃniṣpattiḥ. This translates, roughly, as: Rasa is produced from the combination of Vibhava (the stimulants or determinants of emotion), Anubhava (the consequent or resultant physical and verbal expressions), and Vyabhicharibhava (the transitory or accessory emotional states). The term Rasa itself, as Pravas Jivan Chaudhury carefully explains, carries a dual signification: it refers both to the aesthetic content - the emotion as it exists in the work of art - and to the aesthetic relish - the emotion as it is experienced by the audience (Chaudhury). This dual meaning is critical: Rasa is simultaneously in the art and in the audience, a shared aesthetic event rather than a one-directional transmission of feeling.
Each Rasa has, at its core, a Sthayi Bhava - a dominant or permanent emotional state that persists throughout a given segment of dramatic performance and provides its emotional keynote. The Sthayi Bhava is stirred into Rasa by the Vibhavas, expressed through the Anubhavas, and sustained by the Vyabhicharibhavas - the thirty-three transitory emotional states that colour and enrich the primary emotion without displacing it. Abhinavagupta, the tenth-century Kashmiri philosopher and the most important commentator on the Natyashastra, elaborated this framework into a theory of Dhvani - resonance or suggestion - arguing that the Rasa is not directly expressed in the work but suggested, resonating in the imagination of the sensitive reader or spectator whom he called the sahrdaya - the one of like heart.
The concept of the sahrdaya is particularly important for the present discussion. Rasa, in Abhinavagupta’s formulation, is not accessible to every viewer but only to those who bring to the work a cultivated aesthetic sensibility - what he calls bhāvanā, imaginative empathy. This does not mean that Rasa Theory is elitist in a simple sense; it means, rather, that the experience of Rasa is the highest form of aesthetic engagement, and that the purpose of great dramatic art is to cultivate this capacity in its audience. This is precisely the experience that Lagaan’s songs, at their most effective, produce: a state of refined emotional participation that goes beyond passive entertainment.
The Nine Rasas and Their Sthayi Bhavas
The table below summarises the nine Rasas, their corresponding Sthayi Bhavas, and the presiding deities and colours assigned to them by Bharata Muni:
Bharata Muni originally specified eight Rasas; the ninth, Shanta, was later theorised most fully by Abhinavagupta, who described it as the Rasa from which all others emerge and to which they ultimately return. This claim has significant implications for the analysis of Lagaan: if Shanta is both the origin and the resolution of emotional experience, then its appearance near the film’s climax is not an aesthetic accident but a structural necessity.
III. Music in the Natyashastra and the Raga–Rasa Correspondence
The Natyashastra devotes several chapters to music - not as a decorative supplement to dramatic performance but as a primary vehicle for the evocation and sustaining of Rasa. Bharata Muni specifies that each dramatic mood requires its corresponding musical mode: particular Ragas, particular rhythmic patterns (Tala), particular tempos (Laya), and particular modes of melodic ornamentation (Gamaka) are prescribed for each Rasa. This is not merely a technical catalogue but a philosophical claim: music, in the Natyashastric tradition, is the most direct route to the emotional centre of the spectator because it bypasses discursive understanding and acts directly upon the body and the feeling.
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The musicologist Sharangdeva, writing in the thirteenth century in the Sangitaratnakara, systematised the Raga-Rasa correspondence most comprehensively: Karuna Rasa is expressed through Ragas such as Bhairavi and Todi; Shringar through Ragas such as Yaman, Kafi, and Bhimpalasi; Vira through fast-tempo Ragas such as Desh and Bhairav in Drut Laya; Shanta through Ragas such as Yaman and Bageshri in slow, meditative tempos. This framework, which has shaped Indian classical music for centuries, is also, as this assignment will demonstrate, the framework within which A.R. Rahman composed the songs of Lagaan.
The importance of this point cannot be overstated: when A.R. Rahman sets the rain song Ghanan Ghanan in Megh Malhar - the Raga classically associated with monsoon rains and Adbhuta Rasa - or when he sets the departure lament Mitwa in Bhairavi - the Raga of Karuna - he is not making arbitrary musical choices but drawing on a two-thousand-year-old correspondence between musical mode and emotional state. Whether this is a conscious decision or an unconscious inheritance is, for the purposes of aesthetic analysis, immaterial: what matters is that the correspondence exists and produces precisely the emotional effects that the Natyashastric tradition predicts.
IV. The Natyashastra and Indian Cinema
The question of whether Bharata Muni’s framework applies to Indian cinema - a medium that did not exist when the Natyashastra was composed - has been addressed by several scholars with increasing confidence. Ibkar argues that the basic structure of Indian cinema, including its use of song and dance as emotional intensifiers, its archetypal character types, its narrative movement from disruption to restoration, and the emotional responses it aims to produce in its audience, is thoroughly Natyashastric in origin and logic (Ibkar).
Schechner’s concept of Rasaesthetics, developed in his landmark 2001 essay in TDR, extends this argument in a provocative direction. Schechner proposes that Rasa is not merely an aesthetic category but a physiological one: the experience of Rasa involves what he calls the gut brain (Schechner). - the enteric nervous system - which processes emotional experience at a pre-cognitive, visceral level. This means that when audiences weep during Mitwa or feel their pulse quicken during Chale Chalo, they are experiencing Rasa in its most literal sense: not as an intellectual recognition of emotion but as a physical event in the body. Schechner’s framework thus bridges the ancient and the contemporary, the classical and the popular, in a way that makes the application of Natyashastric theory to cinema not merely plausible but necessary.
Patankar, for his part, is more cautious. He acknowledges the philosophical richness of Rasa Theory but questions whether it can be straightforwardly applied to modern literary and performative forms without significant theoretical modification (Patankar). This caution is well taken: the Natyashastra was written for a specific theatrical tradition, with specific performance conventions, and applying it to Hindi cinema requires what Chaudhury would call a careful distinction between the theory’s essential claims and its historically contingent applications (Chaudhury). This assignment accepts Patankar’s caution but argues, following Ibkar and Sailaxmy and Prabakaran, that the essential claims of Rasa Theory - particularly as they apply to music and emotional response - are not only applicable to Lagaan but are illuminated by it.
V. Navarasa in the Songs of Lagaan: A Detailed Analysis
Lagaan’s musical score, composed by A.R. Rahman with lyrics by Javed Akhtar, contains eleven songs. Sailaxmy and Prabakaran, in their 2025 study, undertake a systematic Navarasa-based analysis of these songs, confirming that each song evokes one or more Rasas through a deliberate combination of Raga, rhythm, lyrical content, and dramatic context (Sailaxmy and Prabakaran). The table below summarises their findings alongside additional analytical observations:
Ghanan Ghanan - Adbhuta Rasa (Wonder)
The film’s celebrated rain song is its most spectacular evocation of Adbhuta - the Rasa of wonder and astonishment. Set in Megh Malhar, the Raga that the Indian classical tradition has associated with monsoon rains for centuries, the song enacts precisely what Bharata Muni described as the production of Rasa through the convergence of Vibhava, Anubhava, and Vyabhicharibhava. The Vibhava is the sight of the first rain clouds over the parched landscape; the Anubhava is the spontaneous dancing, singing, and embracing of the villagers; the Vyabhicharibhavas include joy, relief, hope, and communal solidarity. Together, these elements crystallise into Adbhuta Rasa - a state of joyful astonishment at the miracle of rain after months of drought.
Chaudhury’s observation that Rasa involves the universalisation of individual emotion is fully realised in Ghanan Ghanan (Chaudhury). The villagers’ relief is personal and local, but through the song’s formal structure - the Megh Malhar ascending lines, the collective voices, the visual spectacle of rain - it is transformed into an aesthetic experience that any viewer, anywhere, can share. This is the sadhāranīkaraṇa - the generalisation or universalisation - that Abhinavagupta identified as the mechanism through which private emotion becomes public Rasa.
Mitwa - Karuna Rasa (Sorrow and Compassion)
If Ghanan Ghanan is the film’s most exhilarating moment, Mitwa is its most tender and devastating. Sung by Bhuvan as he contemplates the enormity of the challenge he has taken on and the possibility of total ruin for his village, it evokes Karuna - the Rasa of compassionate sorrow - with extraordinary delicacy. The Raga is Bhairavi, the Raga of endings, of farewells, and of the sorrow that attends separation. Bhairavi’s flat notes - particularly the flat second, fifth, sixth, and seventh - create an emotional quality that the Indian aesthetic tradition has consistently associated with Karuna and Shoka (grief).
Bharata Muni’s specification of the Vibhavas of Karuna is met with precision: the Vibhava is Bhuvan’s isolation and the weight of collective responsibility; the Anubhava is expressed through the plaintive melody, the slow tempo, and the lyrical address to the mitwa (friend/companion) who is simultaneously absent and present; the Vyabhicharibhavas include longing, anxiety, resignation, and the transitory flicker of hope. The audience’s response - a refined sorrow that is somehow pleasurable - is exactly the experience that Bharata theorised as Karuna Rasa: not mere sadness but its aesthetic transformation into a condition of heightened sympathetic feeling.
Chale Chalo - Vira Rasa (Heroism and Valour)
The film’s anthem of collective heroism is its most direct and uncomplicated expression of Vira Rasa - the emotion of valour, courage, and indomitable resolve. Set in Raga Desh with a driving Drut (fast) Laya, the song enacts, in its very musical form, the qualities that Bharata Muni attributed to Vira: energy, enthusiasm, resolution, and the willingness to face impossible odds. The Sthayi Bhava is Utsaha - enthusiasm or heroic energy - and it is expressed not merely through the lyrics but through the ascending melodic lines, the driving tabla rhythms, and the image of the whole village moving together toward the cricket ground.
What is particularly significant about Chale Chalo from a Natyashastric perspective is its function as a collective Vibhava: the song transforms individual resolution into communal heroism. Bharata Muni’s theory, as Chaudhury notes, always situates the production of Rasa within a social context - Rasa is not a private experience but a shared aesthetic event (Chaudhury). Chale Chalo is the most explicit realisation of this social dimension: it is a song that produces Vira Rasa precisely through its collective performance, its insistence that heroism is not an individual achievement but a communal one.
O Palanhare - Shanta Rasa (Peace and Spiritual Surrender)
The devotional song sung by the villagers on the eve of the match evokes Shanta - the ninth and most philosophically complex of the Rasas - with great spiritual depth. Set in Raga Yaman, the Raga associated with evening prayer and contemplative devotion, the song functions as a moment of complete emotional stillness in the midst of the film’s mounting tension. The Sthayi Bhava is Sama - equanimity or inner peace - and the Vibhava is the act of collective prayer and surrender to the divine.
Abhinavagupta’s claim that Shanta is the foundational Rasa - the one from which all others emerge and to which they ultimately return - finds its narrative realisation in the placement of O Palanhare immediately before the film’s climactic cricket sequence. The song does not merely provide emotional relief; it resets the entire emotional register of the film, reminding the audience - and the characters - that the ultimate purpose of their struggle is not victory or defeat but the restoration of dignity and the experience of communal grace. This is precisely what Bharata Muni meant by Ananda: not the pleasure of winning but the aesthetic bliss of being fully alive to one’s situation.
Radha Kaise Na Jale - Shringar Rasa (Love and Beauty)
The Shringar songs of Lagaan - particularly Radha Kaise Na Jale and O Re Chori - evoke the two sub-categories of Shringar that Bharata Muni identified: Sambhoga Shringar (the Rasa of fulfilled or fulfilling love) and Vipralambha Shringar (the Rasa of separation and unfulfilled love). Radha Kaise Na Jale, sung from the perspective of Elizabeth - the British woman who loves Bhuvan but cannot be with him - is a perfect expression of Vipralambha Shringar: longing suffused with beauty, love rendered bittersweet by impossibility.
Dafraik’s 2025 study of love in Kalidasa’s Abhijnanashakuntalam offers a useful parallel here. Just as Shakuntala’s love for Dushyanta is simultaneously joyful and painful - moving through the full range of Shringar’s sub-moods (Dafraik) - Elizabeth’s love for Bhuvan is an emotion of great refinement and complexity. In both cases, the Rasa of love achieves its fullest aesthetic power precisely because it cannot be simply resolved: it must be lived with, sustained, and finally surrendered. This is the vipralambha dimension of Shringar, and it is the dimension that gives the Rasa its most enduring aesthetic force.
VI. The Rasa Vinyasa of Lagaan: Emotional Architecture
The analysis of individual songs reveals a larger pattern: the Rasas in Lagaan are not distributed randomly but arranged in a deliberate sequence that the Natyashastric tradition calls Rasa Vinyasa - the orchestration and progression of emotional states across a dramatic work. Bharata Muni was explicit that a successful dramatic composition must not only evoke individual Rasas but arrange them in a sequence that builds toward an emotionally satisfying resolution.
Lagaan’s Rasa arc follows precisely this pattern. The film opens with Karuna - the sorrow of oppression and suffering - which establishes the moral and emotional stakes of the narrative. This is followed by Adbhuta - the wonder of the rain and of Bhuvan’s audacious challenge - which transforms collective suffering into collective possibility. Shringar enters as the personal dimension of the struggle, anchoring the heroic narrative in the intimacy of human love. Hasya provides periodic relief, preventing the emotional register from becoming overwhelmingly intense. Raudra and Vira intensify as the cricket match approaches and unfolds. And Shanta arrives, at the moment of devotion before the final day of play, as the still point at the centre of the narrative’s turning.
The final victory produces not merely Vira Rasa but a synthesis of all the Rasas that have preceded it: the joy of the celebration contains echoes of Karuna (the memory of suffering), Adbhuta (the wonder that they actually won), Shringar (the resolution of the love narratives), and Shanta (a deep peace beneath the surface excitement). This synthesis - this convergence of all Rasas in a single moment of aesthetic fulfilment - is what Bharata Muni called Ananda: the highest aesthetic experience, the purpose and justification of dramatic art.
VII. Critical Evaluation: Patankar’s Question Answered
Patankar asked, in 1980, whether the Rasa theory has any modern relevance (Patankar). The analysis of Lagaan’s songs offers a clear and evidence-based answer: not only does the Rasa theory remain relevant, but it is, in the context of Indian cinema, indispensable. No other aesthetic framework - not Aristotle’s Poetics, not the psychological theories of emotional response developed in Western film studies - can account as fully or as precisely for the emotional architecture of Lagaan as Bharata Muni’s Natyashastra.
This is not to say that the theory is without limitations in this application. Patankar’s caution about the historical specificity of the Natyashastra’s prescriptions is legitimate: Bharata wrote for a tradition of court drama performed in specific theatrical conditions, and Lagaan is a mass-market film distributed globally. The sahrdaya - the cultivated aesthetic spectator that Abhinavagupta posited as the ideal audience for Rasa-producing art - is not the same as the multiplex audience of 2001. But Schechner’s Rasaesthetics suggests a way beyond this limitation: if Rasa operates at the level of the gut brain, at the level of embodied pre-cognitive experience, then the sahrdaya is not an educated elite but any human being with the capacity for emotional experience ((Schechner). In this sense, Lagaan’s global audience - from Gujarat to Los Angeles - is precisely the audience that Rasa Theory anticipates.
Chaudhury’s distinction between Rasa as aesthetic content and Rasa as aesthetic relish is also instructive here (Chaudhury). The Rasas are in the songs - in their Ragas, their rhythms, their lyrics, their dramatic contexts - regardless of whether individual viewers can name them. The Ghanan Ghanan audiences who wept or danced in the cinema halls of India in 2001 were experiencing Adbhuta and Karuna whether they knew the technical vocabulary of Bharata Muni or not. The theory’s power lies precisely in this fact: it names and systematises what audiences experience spontaneously.
VIII.Conclusion
Lagaan is a film of extraordinary emotional richness. Its power to move audiences across cultures and generations is not accidental, nor is it simply a product of its compelling narrative or A.R. Rahman’s brilliant musical compositions. It is, as this assignment has argued, the result of a deep structural alignment with the aesthetic principles that Bharata Muni articulated in the Natyashastra over two thousand years ago. The songs of Lagaan are Rasa-vehicles of the highest order: they evoke the nine Rasas with precision, arrange them in a narrative arc that builds toward Ananda, and in doing so, demonstrate that the classical aesthetic tradition of India is not a museum piece but a living critical framework of the greatest explanatory power.
Patankar’s question is answered not in the abstract but in the concrete: the Rasa theory has modern relevance because Indian cinema - consciously or unconsciously - continues to produce art in its image. Ibkar’s claim that the Natyashastra forms the cornerstone of Indian aesthetic practice finds in Lagaan its most compelling popular-cultural confirmation. And Schechner’s Rasaesthetics reminds us that the experience Bharata Muni theorised is not culturally exclusive but universally human: the gut knows Rasa before the mind can name it.
The study of Indian Poetics, then, is not merely a historical exercise. It is an act of critical recovery - a reclaiming of an aesthetic tradition that has been marginalised by colonial education and Western critical dominance, but that has never stopped shaping the art that millions of people love. To read Lagaan through the Natyashastra is to hear, beneath the music, the echo of a tradition that stretches back to the earliest recorded theorisation of what art is and what it does. And that echo, as Lagaan’s enduring power demonstrates, is still resonant, still alive, and still - in the most precise aesthetic sense - producing Rasa.
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