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Night-time outdoor procession at a temple-style courtyard lit with strings of coloured lights and a tall decorated lamp tree. Several musicians in white dhotis play drums and wind instruments, including a large nagaswaram-style horn and tall dhol drums, while a man in a yellow shirt and dark dhoti plays a drum at right. Women in colourful saris stand in the background, and a red and white pillar with a garlanded kalasha-like urn sits at centre. Rangoli patterns and a decorated stage area appear on the ground. Several men and children in white and yellow clothing stand near the musicians, and a man in a checked green cloth sits in the foreground beside a drum. No identifiable a person candidate is visible.

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