Self-Defence Session At A Wedding: Watch Viral Video Of Tamil Nadu Bride Performing Martial Arts

Bride performs martial arts in Tamil Nadu: P Nisha performed martial arts with dangerous weapons minutes after her wedding was over.

The 22-year-old bride's video aimed at creating awareness among girls about learning self-defence is now going viral. Her's was a non-traditional wedding in a small village of Tamil Nadu. Nisha, the bride’s performance was the highlight of the ceremony. Her classmates also joined in and the crowd cheered loudly.

Indian weddings are fairly typical with the bride dressing up in vibrant colours and eye-catching jewellery. Nisha wore all that, sported a traditional saree and wielded weapons to perform ‘Surul vaal veechu’ and silambam sticks to carry out ‘Rettai kambu' on a cement road in front of the wedding hall in Thirukolu.

A commerce graduate, Nisha through her performance aimed to create awareness as she believes that every girl must know the art of staying healthy and should be able to protect herself.

Bride performs martial arts in Tamil Nadu: Here is a video that features the elements and martial arts movements from Nisha's ceremony

Tamilnadu Bride performance Martial Arts, stuns crowd with 'Surul Vaal' (Flexible sword) and Silambam to promote traditional Martials Arts. pic.twitter.com/6VHLiQTI2d

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For many years Nisha, who aspires to become a police officer, has been performing traditional martial arts. She was encouraged by her mother Mani to learn this self-defence mechanism. She started learning the technique 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. Her husband Rajkumar was also inspired by her skills and decided to add a martial arts performance amid their wedding ceremonies to entertain guests and create awareness about Silambam, the weapon-based martial art style originating in South India in the Indian subcontinent.

The newly-wed bride performed several kinds of Silambam Adimurai with a long stick. The guests were entertained and educated. They also hailed her for using the flexible sword with such ease. "It was not easy to perform in a sari along with heavy makeup as a bride. I used to practice martial arts in a T-shirt and track pants," the Times of India quoted Nisha.

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