Hayavadana (lit. horse-headed) written in 1971, the plot is based on the Brhalkatha and Thomas Mann’s retelling of Transposed Heads. It is the story of two friends Devdutta and Kapila and their love interest Padmini. Being experiment-oriented based on tradition and modernity, this play employs and moves on signs and symbols that reflect and represent conflicts and contradictions within the text and in society. In fact, by powerfully utilizing the inherent duality present in the signs and symbols, the play reconstructs the themes of love, identity, completeness, and humanness that have never been as simple. The complexity of these themes and their interconnectedness are eloquently used through the interplay of signs and symbols that are not imaginary or self-created but derived from mythology, tradition and culture. As the title of the play implies, and also when the human appears with a horse head, the symbolism takes centre stage, and it becomes a laughable entity and a laugh is needed to transform it into a complete horse by disobeying its wishes to be transformed into a complete human. The conflict between head and body, a symbol of knowledge and bodily power, has been the contestation even in social life, where confusion prevails due to the preference for the existence of one over the other, the play must be approached semiotic perspective for understanding the complexity in the interplay of signs and symbols having inherent duality. The horse in a human voice walks down the street interestingly singling the national anthem.