Muthur is a village in the southern Indian state of Tamilnadu. Muthur villagers come together to celebrate the Pongal festival once every year. It happens during Vaikasi month (~June) of the Tamil calendar and is celebrated as a ~9-day festival.
Day 1; morning, clean the entire village; evening, the first Pongal

Day 6; evening, 2nd Pongal (this video). Usually, they start before dusk, but heavy rain delayed the Pongal today. Also, there was a power outage, so they had to rely on Diesel-motor generated electricity for lights- sorry for the taatatttaa background motor noise throughout the video.

Day 8; morning, clean the village again; evening, 3rd and final Pongal. The third Pongal (Part 2) is celebrated with neighboring villagers.

Day 9 (June 15th 2022); is usually Manjuvirattu (bullfight) during the daytime (Part 3, this video) and Koothu (drama) in the night.

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