“Rasa” literally translates as juice.

Like every juice gives us a certain kind of taste, with a deep understanding of the various form of different life experiences of human beings the writer of the Natyashastra “Bharat muni” gives us 8 rasas.

Simply means on what rasa you’ll get what kind of taste (life experience) or a particular taste(life experience) is belongs to which rasa.

Later on, the other three rasas (shanti rasa, bhakti rasa and batsalya rasa ) are evolved which are part of the shringaar rasa but have tremendously uniqueness, that’s why along with the time they were used separately.

• Shringaar rasa.

Anything that is beautiful, beautiful and ecstatically beautiful, and gives us the taste of beautiful life experiences, belongs to this rasa.

This rasa is also called as king of all rasas.

• Hasya rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of laughter.

We gather life experience of laughter with this rasa, any life experience related to laughter belongs to this rasa.

• Karuna rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of sadness.

Any life experience of sadness is belongs to this rasa.

• Veera rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of heroic, courageous, bravery and pride ways of living life.

Any life experience related to heroic, courageous, bravery and pride way of life, belongs to this rasa.

• Rudra rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of angry, furious or violent life experiences.

You could say, it could be violently furious or furiously violent but essentially any life experience related to anger or violence belongs to this rasa.

• Bhayankara rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of fearful life experiences.

Anything that is dangerous or horrific or horrifically dangerous which are leads to fearful life experiences, then those life experiences belong to this rasa.

• Bibhatsa rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of ugly, nasty or extremely ugly or nasty kinds of life experiences.

Anything nasty or ugly that could give you an unnecessary headache or any life experience of our life, related with ugliness or nastiness those life experiences belongs to this rasa.

• Adbhuta rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of miraculous life experiences.

A rasa relates to the wonder of life.

Some life experiences which are miraculously miraculous which are not fit to our logical mind or beyond than what we can simply explain logically to make understandable,  then those life experiences belong to this rasa.

• Shanti rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of peacefulness.

Where we experience the beauty of peacefulness. The life experiences related to peacefulness belongs to this rasa.

• Bhakti rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of love and devotion towards a deity or someone or something else.

The life experiences which are connected with love and devotion towards anyone or anything comes under this rasa.

• Batsalya rasa.

This rasa gives us the taste of the beauty of childishness.

Where the life experience is connected with the vibrant beauty of a child or childishness, this kind of life experiences belongs to this rasa.

In this entire world, nothing could happen beyond these expressions of life.

No story or film making happened yet are beyond from these life experiences.

Simply not because I have watched all the movies in this world but simply because everything is within these rasas.

And every single rasa has its own universe, they don’t have any particular limit, they are limitless, how much may you perceive the knowledge within it, these are never going to end because there is no end.

[ Using all these rasas you can easily make a story and if you already have a story, you can decorate the story as the way it needs,  before start film making. ]