There are many reasons for taking a Hindi course. Maybe you want to make yourself more marketable if you are doing business in India. Maybe you are interested in traveling to India for spiritual or personal reasons. Or maybe you just love Bollywood movies.
Bollywood movies, like other performing arts in India, borrows from a long tradition that includes performances of epic poetry, Sanskrit drama, music and dance conventions and more. One of the elements of these traditions is the concept of "rasas." Rasas are the chief emotion that a performer tries to convey, or that the audience feels, in a performance.
There are nine rasas, running the gamut from love and attraction to terror and horror. Each is associated with a color and a deity.
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