Minutes after her wedding was over, 22-year-old bride P Nisha dressed in her bridal saree, started performing martial arts known as Adimurai. I used to practise martial arts in a t-shirt and track pants.”She had started learning traditional martial arts such as ‘Silambam’, ‘Surul Vaal’, ‘Adimurai’, ‘Kalarippayattu’, and ‘Theepantham’ (fireball) three years ago as a final year college student. Her friends also performed martial arts for an hour to entertain hundreds of villagers for around 90 minutes. Nisha said her mother Mani and her father Perumal also encouraged her to learn martial arts. Rajkumar, her husband and a farmer, supported her martial arts and wanted her to use the wedding as a platform to showcase her martial art skills.

Source: dna July 01, 2021 09:00 UTC