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Ladies prepare their thalis to apply vermillion the goddesses’ feet. Sindoor-Khela or the age-old vermilion game is as old as Durga Puja itself. The sindoor is first applied to the goddesses’ feet and only after that married women of the society come forward to indulge themselves into this blissful game of joy. This Bengali Hindu tradition is religiously followed by the married Hindu women who smear each other’s faces with sindoor on the last day of Durga Puja i.e. Vijaya Dashami. Just like the other joyful activities and traditions followed in the Durga Puja, sindoor khela also holds quite an integral aspect in every Bengali woman’s heart. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The colle
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