And so, the quest began.
The actor playing Rama—a skinny college kid with pimples—raised a cheap plastic bow. He aimed at the towering effigy of Ravan, fifty feet high, stuffed with firecrackers and straw. A volunteer ran forward with a flaming torch and touched the fuse. where to watch ramleela
On stage, Hanuman had just set Lanka ablaze. The prop fire was just orange and red cloth with a fan behind it. But the children in the audience gasped. The mothers clutched their infants. A man in the back row, a burly Sikh with a turban the colour of turmeric, was wiping his eyes with a handkerchief. And so, the quest began