Muthuvan Kalyanam | Wedding in The Hills | Virtual Bharat | Short Film | Documentary

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In Vellaramkuthu, Kerala, a picturesque tribal hamlet in the Western Ghats, an elderly tribesman sits around a bonfire to narrate an old tale to a group of children. The atmosphere warms up for a story to unwind. The story of the wedding in the hills.

In olden days the Muthuvan marriage custom - or Penneduppu in local dialect - was a celebration for the entire village, an affair lasting several days. As part of tradition, the bride’s friends playfully hid her in the thick forest around the hamlet. The hapless groom had to quickly use his wits. With a band of trusted friends, he needed to scour the densely wooded hills for his bride, or risk mockery. Meanwhile, the bride’s friends were sly in playing the game. They deliberately misguided the groom’s group by singing ‘aashapattu’, a local wedding song while drawing the bride even further away. He faced the dangers of the forest and wildlife, sometimes for several days, to just ask for her hand.

Once he finds his wife-to-be, the marriage was presided over by the bridesmaids in the forest itself. Ornaments and sarees were exchanged and they were officially married. Blessed by nature in deep dark forest, the couple spent the night there and returned to their village the next day to seek the blessing of the elders.

Come experience a destination wedding of one of its kind, a tradition that is timeless and a couple purely in love. It is truly a wedding made in heaven.

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Credits:

Created by: Bharatbala
Director: Shawn Sebastian
D.O.P: Sudeep Elamon
Editor: Appu Bhattathiri
Soundtrack: Ashish Zachariah
Associate Editor: Christy Sebastian
Sound Mix: Sumanth Shetty
Colorist: Abhijeet Deolekar
2nd Unit D.O.P: Anirudh Ganapathy
Singer: Varsha Manjunath
Post Production Team: Sayan Debnath, Yash Khaire
Executive Producers: Mrinalini Mitra, Lynette D’mello
Subtitles by: Don Sebastian
Produced by: Studio Virtual Bharat
Post Production Studio: Open Mind
Production House: Bharatbala Pictures
Produced by: Studio Virtual Bharat

For Studio Virtual Bharat:

Chief Operating Officer: Mrinalini Mitra
Head of Production: Lynette D’mello
Studio Team:
Sayan Debnath
Vaishnavi Vasudevan
Aparna Sharma
Yash Khaire
Prakash Bamne
Kannan Rajaram
Hariharan
Murugesan
Ghanshyam Patil

Project Virtual Bharat:
Hari Krishnan
Jawahar Sharma
Abhijeet Deolekar

Featuring: Kalyani & Aji

Special Thanks
District Forest Office, Ernakulam
Suresh Elamon
Ben Tom
Jose Joseph
Sivan
Adarsh Aji
People of Kunchippara Tribal Hamlet, Kuttampuzha Panchayat


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