Paintings in motion" is how writer-director Omkar Bhatkar describes the three Passion plays that have kept him and his team busy for the past two months. While it's not uncommon to see parishes stage plays on the suffering of Christ in the days leading up to Easter, this trilogy aims to present a contemporary take on one of the episodes, while exploring the lesser-known side of the others, with a strong visual theme running throughout.

The costume dramas, Bhatkar informs, draw heavily from the Early Christian, Medieval, Byzantine, Renaissance and Early Modern art. And for this, the team dipped into over 200 paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Carl Heinrich Bloch and other master artists from Europe.