Punjabis perform bhangra at Kila Raipur Rural Sports Festival

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Punjabi women folk performing bhangra, wearing colourful attire during the rural Olympics - Ludhiana, Punjab.

Bhangra is a lively form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

Bhaṅgṛā refers to several types of dance originating from the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. Bhangra dance is based on music from a dhol, folk singing, and the chimta. The accompanying songs are small couplets written in the Punjabi language called bolis.

Bhangra singers employ a high, energetic tone of voice. Singing fiercely and with great pride, they typically add nonsensical, random noises to their singing. Likewise, often people dancing to Bhangra will yell phrases such as hoi, hoi, hoi; balle balle; chak de; oye hoi; bruah (for an extended length of about 2–5 seconds); haripa; or ch-ch (mostly used as slow beats called Jhummar) to the music.

Traditional men wear a chaadra while doing bhangra. A chaadra is a piece of cloth wrapped around the waist. Men also wear a kurta, which is a long shirt. In addition, men wear pagri (turban) to cover their heads.

In modern times, men also wear turla, the fan attached to the pagri. Colorful vests are worn above the kurta. Phummans (small balls attached to ropes) are worn on each arm.

Kila Raipur Sports Festival, popularly known as the Rural Olympics, is held annually in Kila Raipur (near Ludhiana), in Punjab, India.

Competition is held for major Punjabi rural sports, include cart-race, rope pulling and many more, rather strange expressions of strength like holding bicyle with ones teeth, bull lock chariot riding, pulling vehicles with hair and letting a tractor pass over your ribcage.

In February each year, Ludhiana becomes the destination for hundreds of sports enthusiasts, including foreigners. They come to Kila Raipur to see the special breed of bullocks, camels, dogs, mules and other animals competing in competitive events. The most prestigious winners have attended. In the year of the Olympics 2008, Hakam and Naib Singh Dhaliwal from village Kalsian, Punjab took the 1st place prize. They also won first in Gujjaral and Phalewal. They are known in Punjab as the men who hold the greatest passion in the sport.

Source: Wikipedia

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