Balmiki Pratibha ( বাল্মীকি-প্রতিভা ) || An opera by Rabindranath Tagore || Full Video

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Prisoners from Kolkata's Presidency Correctional Home perform the golden jubilee production of Tagore's Valmiki Pratibha, it is ... met with tremendous success. A former convict, who played the role of Valmiki, the dacoit ... 36 inmates, including Nigel, would leave the jail and travel with their performance.

One night, Valmiki, the robber chief, and his men captured a young girl to be sacrificed before Kali, the goddess of death. As Valmiki approached to behead the girl, her cries melt the robber chief's heart and she was released. Later Valmiki's men found that their leader was taking no more pleasure in bloodshed. Considering it as a sign of shameful cowardice, they abandoned him. Valmiki began to wander in the forest. One day he saw a young hunter killing two innocent love birds. Enraged, he uttered a curse which curiously enough, came out in Sanskrit, the language of the gods that he never learned. Valmiki saw an image of Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom being worshipped by the forest-nymphs. He renounced Kali and began his long search for the goddess of knowledge. In the meantime, Lakshmi, the goddess of fortune, approached to distract him, but he refused her. At last, his penance was rewarded and Saraswati herself appeared to him. It turned out that the little girl that he had saved from beheading was none other than the goddess herself in disguise, who had come to melt his 'stone' heart. Later, the goddess offered her Veena to Valmiki and blessed him with music. She blessed the former robber chief to become the greatest poet in the whole world, to be worshipped next to the goddess herself by every poet or artist ever since.

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