Sonepure Mela, Bihar

"Sonepur mela is held on kartik poornima in the month of november in sonepur,35 kms from patna,capital of Bihar at the Ganga and Gandak junction. It is of the large cattle fair held in the world. In Sonepur Mela almost all types of animals are brought here for sale. The Sonepur Cattle Fair once used to attract traders from places as distant as Central Asia. Till date, it is the biggest cattle fair of Asia and stretches on from fifteen days to one month. Numerous stalls are also set up at the grounds of the Sonepur Cattle Fair where we can find a wide variety of goods in these stalls, ranging from garments, to weapons and furniture to toys, utensils and agricultural implements to jewelry and handicrafts. This footage is part of the professionally-shot 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 Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
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