Kushti or Indian wrestling!

Kushti (also: Kusti, Koshti) is a traditional rural sport of India. Kushti is a form of traditional Indian combative wrestling. In India, Kushti takes place in a clay or dirt pit.. Here, wrestlers live under strict rules. Kushti is a traditional form of Indian wrestling. It's not just a sport and an art, it's an ancient subculture. Wrestlers live and train together and have strict rules. They may not drink, smoke or have sex. Kushti wrestlers live in gyms called akharas. Their diet consists of milk, eggs, almonds and chapatitis. Nice Indian boys training to be wrestlers! This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... rupindang [at] gmail [dot] com and [email protected].