DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was not to paste stock theatre clipart inside a decorative Indian frame — it was to solve how Western comedy-tragedy mask grammar reads inside Mithila central-medallion discipline without breaking Bharni flat-fill rules. Mumbai's performing-arts culture gave the anchor: proscenium, curtain rise, spotlight sweep, audience hush — all of that compresses naturally into a circular stage roundel the way a Kohbar lotus once anchored a wedding chamber wall. Central-medallion symmetry solves the layout problem: the joined mask pair becomes the mandala nucleus with vertical bilateral axis so grin and frown mirror across one nose seam, while the rectangular corner registers carry garden-floral horror vacui and spotlight beams the way classical panels carry fish and peacock guardians. Bharni made sense because mask faces, curtain drape, and sunburst rays need readable flat silhouettes at poster distance; Kachni stipple stays reserved for ray texture, spotlight beam hatching, and bird wing infill where line density can whisper without muddying the vermillion and turmeric fields. We stacked the red curtain with white dot pattern as folk canopy grammar, let the sunburst behind the masks borrow Tantrik ray vocabulary without importing yantra figures, and placed the lotus with flanking birds at the base as threshold anchor — stage as ritual ground. The outer leaf-fringe border is deliberate Bharni enclosure, not garnish: performing arts as daily festival inside classical abundance framing.