The young daughter of a veteran poet Dijabangshi Das, Chandrabati is in love with another poet Jayananda. On the eve of their marriage, Jayanda betrays Chandrabati and marries another woman in the community. The pain stricken Chandrabati resorts to chose a passionate life of being confining herself inside a Shiva Temple and takes her vow to rewrite the epic Ramayana. She tries to recall her early write up and decides to transform Sita-the ignored female of the epic into the main hero. Jayanada realizes the wrong he had done to Chandrabati and returns to the temple for seeking forgiveness from her. She doesn’t listen to him anymore and concentrates to complete her mission of rewriting the epic into a ballad of her own conscious. The rejected Jayananda commits suicide drowning in the nearby river. The pain stricken Chandrabati gets very sick after this incident but still struggles to remain obdurate of completing her journey. Set in the mid-sixteenth century, classical East Bengal context, Chandrabati Kotha (The Tales of Chandrabati) is a tribute to the legendary pioneer feminist Bengali poet Chandrabati.