Chhuanthar Run - where the largest family resides, Mizoram

From the archive record

Chhuanthar Run is a huge four-storey building with 22 rooms and on the front there is a small signboard that reads "House Number 1." Once you step into the house,the kitchen to the left and a large capacious drawing-cum-dining room await youon the second floor. While the married sons sleep in separate roomsattached togetheron the third floor, there is a dormitory exclusively for Ziona'seldest son. Zionahas his own plush and lavishly decorated room on the second floor. The younger wives sleep in a dormitoryright next to Ziona while the older wives sleep farther away. The wives take turns to visit him when he summons them. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wil