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Outdoor folk performance on a dirt ground in front of a blue and white striped tent decorated with banana leaves and orange bunting. Several men in matching red kurta-style shirts and white dhoti-like trousers perform a dance. A dancer in the foreground leaps with a red drum slung at his side and raises a small cymbal-like instrument above his head. Another dancer beside him holds up a similar hand cymbal. Behind them stand a white-haired elderly man with white tilak marks wearing a yellow sash, a younger boy in red and yellow, and a young man at right playing small hand drums. Bare feet and ankle bells are visible. No a person candidate is clearly visible.

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