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Indoor hall with a white tiled ceiling, red curtains and a projection screen showing a yellow-tinted image behind a gilded seated figure at right. A man in a white shirt and grey trousers bows with palms pressed together toward a smiling man in a maroon-red turban with a silver-and-pink ornament, wearing a rust-orange draped cloth, a long beaded necklace and a gold armlet. The turbaned man's head is touched by the bowing man's hand. To the left, a bald man with a white tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha mala stands in an orange-brown dhoti. At right, a man with long swept-back hair and bead necklaces in a white garment with gold border stands beside a woman in a red top. Several other people in white and light clothing move about the room.

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