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A stage event photograph taken from behind a seated audience of ascetics and devotees facing a large dark stone deity murti with a gold kalasha-like canopy, garlanded with multicoloured flower arches. A seated figure in white and gold sits near the murti's base at the centre, with a dimly lit stage backdrop, stage lights overhead, and a film camera on a tripod at left. Many people in white dhotis, bare-chested men wearing orange and white, women in orange and green saris sit on striped woven mats across the stage. The setting is a grand celebration. a person's appearance cannot be confirmed from this distance, so the central figure is described by role only.

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