Boy jumping into step-well at the Nizamuddin Dargah

From an old antique monument and neighbouring buildings, village boys jump into the equally old well at the Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi, India. Scampering up walls, using crevices as foot-holds, they make their way to the top of the building!


One way to deal with the 45 degrees Celcius summer heat of 2012, and lots of spare summer-time...

Boy jumping into step-well at the Nizamuddin Dargah

This baoli or step-well at Nizamuddin was built by Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya in the years 1321-22; it has a dargah attached to it and many pilgrims consider its water as holy, it is a major convergence point during the annual urs. It is also the only Baoli in Delhi still with underground springs with pure water. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com