Director's Note: Art historians have depicted Raja Ravi Varma, the world-renowned Indian painter as having been influenced by the classical European tradition of portraits and drawings. But during my research for the documentary film 'The Painted epics' for The Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts, New Delhi, I came across some murals in the family temple of Ravi Varma. These wall paintings are in the royal temple of Kilimanoor palace near Thiruvananthapuram, the place where Ravi Varma was born and lived till youth. I found some similarities between Ravi Varma's work and the rich mural tradition of Kerala. Art history books had no knowledge of these family temple murals. Further research strengthened my belief and I discovered the painting in a haphazard manner. In this temple, poojas are hardly conducted now. So these paintings remained almost undetected. The silent expressions in these temple murals conclusively prove the admiration of classical art forms. Most of the figures appear like sequences from performing arts. So Ravi Varma's creativity must have been influenced by our traditional art forms. Hence I decided to make a documentary on Ravi Varma's creativity, which is highly influenced by the classical art forms in our tradition. It is evident that regular theatrical art performances were staged in his place. This influence might have been precipitated.This documentary also portrays former Miss World Ms.Yuktha Mookhey.