Janeu | Bhojpuri Initiation Rites & Folk Songs (Sonic Cinema)
This sonic cinema, by visual anthropologist Rajat Nayyar, is on the folk songs sung by women during the initiation ritual (Janeu or Upanayana) in the Bhadwar village of Bihar and it documents the landscape of the event. While rituals in India are majorly seen as men's job, not many know that women hold an equally important role in the purification rituals – of expressing the emotions that develop during the ritual through songs.