When Maria Badstue was five months old, she was adopted by a Danish couple from India.

When Mumbai's Royal Opera House was renovated and opened after being shut for decades, she returned to the country of her birth to conduct the Italian opera, Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa, a contemporary of Mozart.

Produced by Suranjana Tewari and Parth Chhabra.

Filmed and edited by Vishnu Vardhan and Jaltson AC.