From the archive record
Ladies singing folk songs and performing wedding ritual on a young groom in a community wedding near Tonk in Rajasthan. A Rajasthani rural wedding taking place near Tonk district. It took place as a part of a community wedding where about a hundred couples tied the knot.Child marriage is banned in India yet several marriages take place in states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh on Akha Teeja (Akshay Tritiya) as it is considered one of the most auspicious day for marriages. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digi