It happens only in India!

A tongue-in-cheek, fun, energetic journey through the heart of India, showing its eccentricity to the full, and everything that makes being Indian, living in India and tolerating (and even enjoying!) the madness around us a worthwhile exercise... The very reason most of us chose to not become NRI's and live abroad. The fullness of the Indian experience, the madness of 1.20 billion people jostling for a small amount of space on this subcontinent.

The body odour and the sweaty armpits, the beautiful monsoon light, the dirty overflowing sewers after the rains, the brilliant views from a Himalayan summit, the flies on the mithai at your local sweet shop and despite all that - the delicious gulab jamuns he still manages to churn out! The fullness of all senses that India tends to occupy in the individual...

It all only happens in India!

Images include the Kumbh Mela, Naga sadhus of the Aghori sect, coloured water wars at holi, Lath-mar holi at Barsana and Vrindavan, a massive kitchen karhai, a goat eating fish (or is that a fish-eating goat?), puris being made en masse, a woman patting a rat at the Rat Temple in Rajasthan, an Arunachali rural sport that challenges and possibly hurts the crotch, a pork-lard eating competition in Nagaland, a mango-eating competition in Delhi, a piglet-catching competition at the Hornbill Festival, Red Fort and the madness of Chandni Chowk seen from atop, a man removing a beehive with his bare hands, wrestling in Nagaland, a dhaba wala in action making chapattis, a bullock cart race in Punjab, a Punjabi man riding two horses at once, two men carrying hal or heavy metal ploughs in their mouths, naked Naga sadhus, Padayani festival from South India, a man milking a buffalo, an Eid crowd, a road-side ear cleaner, muharram self-flagellation, rat catching in Arunachal Pradesh, kids ice-skating in Zanskar, a Delhi cop asleep on the job and finally boys jumping into an old baoli in Delhi!

This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of tens 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 wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].