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Picture this. A pursuit in a dense jungle leading to a wedding in the hills, celebrated with the bride and groom, solely accompanied by their bridesmaids and best boys. Truly an enchanting experience! Among the Muthuvans, a tribal community that migrated to the Western Ghats from Madurai, the aforementioned ritual, known as the ‘penneduppu’ was solemnised on the hills by a word of honour, beneath a picturesque waterfall, with the flora and fauna of the region as witnesses, a paradisal landscape.
The abandoned custom was reawakened in Kochi-based documentary filmmaker and independent journalist Shawn Sebastian’s latest, Muthuvan Kalyanam, part of filmmaker Bharatbala’s Virtual Bharat series, a 1,000-film enterprise that aims to discover and archive India’s rich culture.
Short film ‘Muthuvan Kalyanam’ showcases a tradition once practised by one of Kerala’s indigenous tribes
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February 17, 2021 18:55 IST
Documentary filmmaker Shawn Sebastian on unearthing a tradition that was once-practised by an indigenous tribe for his short, ‘Muthuvan Kalyanam’, which features in Bharatbala’s ‘Virtual Bharat’ series
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Documentary filmmaker Shawn Sebastian on unearthing a tradition that was once-practised by an indigenous tribe for his short, ‘Muthuvan Kalyanam’, which features in Bharatbala’s ‘Virtual Bharat’ series
A generation or two ago, marriages among the Muthuvan tribe in Kerala were celebrated over a few days with a ritual called