10th day of Ramleela: Dusshera, in Uttarkashi

From the archive record

Dusshera is the day in Hindu mythology when Ram kills Ravan and the good wins over the bad. The day is celebrated by burning huge mannequins of the three brothers from Ramayan who kidnapped Sita ( Lord Ram's wife) Ramleela is the performance of a Hindu mythology 'Ramayan'. There are over a thousand versions of the story of Ramayan in the world today. Accordingly, the stage play is altered with differences in the storylines but in a nutshell, the characters remain the same. This Ramleela is the performance from Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow m