Love is an emotion that has inspired art, poetry, songs and stories across ages and yet it remains mysterious and complex. This Valentine’s Day, let Zee Theatre treat you to five stories that will help you explore the many facets of love and celebrate it in all its glory. Here is an overview of the teleplays that will be screened on Tata Play Theatre, Dish and D2H Rangmach Active, and Airtel Spotlight on February 14.

Kahaani Mitra Ki

‘Kahani Mitra Ki’ is a sensitive adaptation of Vijay Tendulkar’s path-breaking Marathi play ‘Mitrachi Goshta’ and revolves around Bapu and Mitra, two unlikely friends in a Pune college in the 1940s. Things take a turn when Mitra confides in him that she is different and has feelings for other women instead of men. Nama, a girl Mitra meets while performing a college play, becomes the object of her desire. These innocent teenagers get caught up in a web of their own chaotic feelings, the aggression of Nama’s jilted lover, and the stigma attached to their arrangement from society. Amidst so much negativity, their loyalties are stretched thin, leading to consequences that are beyond anyone’s control. Directed by Akash Khurana and adapted by Sai Haval, the star cast includes Sayalee Phatak, Parna Pethe, Abhay Mahajan, Om Bhutkar and Priyanshu Painyuli.

Tune in to Airtel Spotlight on 14th February at 2pm and 6pm

Internal Affairs

A post-work drinking session leads to a clumsy one-night stand, which lands new recruits Sid and Rhea into a relationship neither of them wants. Hovering in the background are the ghosts and regrets of their romantic pasts. In this day and age, with stressful workplaces, dysfunctional families, changing values and shadows cast by sins of the past, what chance of survival does a normal relationship have? The teleplay is directed by Adhaar Khurana and stars Hussain Dalal, Priyanshu Painyuli, Shriya Pilgaonkar and Shikha Talsania.

Tune In Dish and D2H Rangmanch Active on 14th February at 2 pm and 6 pm

Panchi Aise Aate Hain

In this classic Vijay Tendulkar play, Arun, a young traveller, stumbles into the Shukla residence that is trying hard to marry off their daughter Saru. Consistent rejections have made them anxious and they pressurise Saru to try harder to impress prospective grooms. Saru herself is highly affected by all this and makes different plans in which Arun may have a part to play.

Directed and filmed by Ishan Trivedi, the teleplay stars Ratan Rajput, Amol Parasher, Deepak Qazir, Vibha Chibber, Sandeep Dhabale, and Vinnay Vishwaa.

Tune In Dish and D2H Rangmanch Active on 14th February at 2 pm and 6 pm

Rahenge Sada Gardish Mei Taare

This moving and evocative relationship drama is based on the lives of two creative people and their work and also pays a tribute to the Hindi cinema of the 1950s. The story is heavily inspired by the life of filmmaker Guru Dutt, his singer-wife Geeta Dutt, and their tumultuous marriage. Filmed by Saif Hyder Hasan, the teleplay stars Sonali Kulkarni and Arif Zakaria.

Tune in to TataPlay Theatre on 14th February at 2 pm and 8 pm

Piya Behrupiya

This uproarious adaption of Shakespeare’s rib-tickling comedy ‘Twelfth Night’ is set to foot-tapping folk fusion music and has been an audience favourite for many years. ‘Piya Behrupiya’ tells the story of unrequited love – Duke Orsino for Olivia, Olivia for Cesario, and Cesario, who is, in fact, Viola in a man’s disguise, for the Duke. Directed for the stage by Atul Kumar and filmed by Swapna Waghmare Joshi, the teleplays stars Geetanjali Kulkarni, Amitosh Nagpal, Sagar Deshmukh, Mansi Multani, Mantra Mugdh, Gagan Dev Riar, Neha Saraf, Trupti Khamkar and Saurabh Nayar.

Tune in to TataPlay Theatre on 14th February at 2 pm and 8 pm