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Outdoors on bare sandy ground, several drummers perform. Shirtless young men in white dhotis with blue shoulder cloths play barrel drums, some kneeling on a striped cloth beside a large black stone Nandi bull statue. Behind them, women in pink headwraps and blue-and-red garments sit on the ground, and a white-clad man with a camera stands near the Nandi. Onlookers stand in the background, with a green screen fence, tents and a white van beyond.

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