A folk dance of 9,892 people at Kullu Dussehra: the Guinness record behind Kullvi Nati

Background

Himachal Pradesh is putting Rs 10,000 crore and more into high-end tourism, and Kullvi Nati is one of the things visitors come for. Nati is a community folk dance of the Kullu valley, danced in rows and circles with the dancers' hands joined. The official Kullu Dussehra portal of the State records that on 26 October 2015, during International Kullu Dussehra, 9,892 women and men danced the Nati together. That performance was registered in the Guinness World Records in the category Largest Nati Dance. A year earlier, on 7 October 2014, 8,540 men and women had danced at the Rath ground, and that event went into the Limca Book of World Records. The 2014 dancers moved to the ground to the beat of dhols and nagaras; the 2015 dancers danced to traditional Kulluvi beats. Both records were set during Kullu Dussehra, the valley's annual festival.