(31 Jan 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Prayagraj, India – 14 January 2025
1.Various of people and holy men heading towards bathing in a procession, crowd gathered watching
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Prayagraj, India – 13 January 2025
2. Wide of people gathered on the banks for bathing
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Prayagraj, India – 14 January 2025
3. Pan of people bathing
4. Mid of a man bathing
5. Various of people walking back after bathing with religious markings on their forehead
6. Close of a religious marking on a man’s forehead
7. Tilt up of a priest applying a religious marking on a man’s forehead
8. Wide of a priest applying sandalwood and a religious marking on a woman’s forehead
9. Priest Shiv Kumar Pandey calling on people to get religious markings UPSOUND (Hindi) “Come, come, get your religious mark”, tilt down to readying sandalwood paste
10. Various of Pandey applying religious marking on a man’s forehead
11. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Shiv Kumar Pandey, Priest:
“No matter how much charity you do, good deeds you do, but if you don’t put a tilak (religious mark) on your forehead after bathing then there is no meaning to bathing.”
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Prayagraj, India – 15 January 2025
12. Pan from river to tents set up for the Maha Kumbh Mela festival
13. Mid of tents
14. Wide of people at the festival
15. Mid of people on a camel, entrance to a holy sect lit up
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Prayagraj, India – 12 January 2025
16. Holy man applying ash on a woman’s forehead
17. Tilt down of holy man singing to him playing a percussion instrument
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Prayagraj, India – 14 January 2025
18. Pan of people with their foreheads with religious markings
19. Mid of a priest applying religious marking on a woman’s forehead
20. Mid of Anuj Kumar Tiwari applying religious marking on a man’s forehead, man touches his feet and pays him
21. Pan from Tiwari chanting prayer and applying sandalwood on a man’s forehead
22. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Anuj Kumar Tiwari, 21, priest:
"By applying sandalwood, the sins of the body are destroyed. It keeps the mind cool, that is why sandalwood is applied."
23. Sushila Chauhan talking to her family members after applying religious markings
24. Close of religious marking on Chauhan’s forehead reading (Hindi) “Mahakal (Hindu god Shiva)”
25. Close of religious marking on Chauhan’s family member reading (Hindi) “Radhe (Hindu goddess)
26. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Sushila Chauhan, Pilgrim:
“I put the tilak (religious mark) because it gives you concentration, peace of mind and mind is satisfied. If anyone tries to commit a mistake, then what happens is that we feel that we should not do anything wrong. We always have to cooperate and help others and we have to protect the Sanatana dharma.”
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Prayagraj, India – 12 January 2025
27. Various of Stephen Barker taking photos of a Naga Sadhu
28. Pan from wood fire to ash smeared Naga sadhu sitting
29. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephen Barker, Tourist from New York:
“It’s very overwhelming. It’s hard to digest it all, it takes some time to realise that you are really here.”
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Prayagraj, India – 15 January 2025
30. Mid of an ash smeared Naga Sadhu with beaded headdress applying ash on a man’s forehead
31. Wide of an ash smeared Naga Sadhu applying ash on a man’s forehead
32. Mid of ash smeared Naga Sadhu
STORYLINE:
The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would bring them salvation.
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