The boys in the band

Not only a team of musicians and bearers, but a horse (sometimes an elephant) and a loudspeaker mounted curiously on a mini car (teli,) form the National Hindu Band.
Similar brass bands feature at many public occasions... today this bandbaja has been playing at a wedding procession in Nariman in South Mumbai. Earlier an expressionless groom sat astride the mare, while  his friends and family danced exuberantly around him to the very loud music.
The band is taking a short break, they will swing back into action several times... we still heard the big drums and the high notes of the brass much later, many streets away, and could feel the good fortune flowing out to us.