Updated On: 10 October, 2009 07:30 AM IST | | Kasmin Fernandes
Why would women gyrate to Bollywood numbers in a sexually charged atmosphere, for an all-male audience at Asia's largest cattle fair in Sonepur, Bihar? Saba Dewan has the answer

Why would women gyrate to Bollywood numbers in a sexually charged atmosphere, for an all-male audience at Asia's largest cattle fair in Sonepur, Bihar? Saba Dewan has the answer
The Sonepur cattle fair in Bihar comes alive every evening when more than 50 girls take to the stage, dancing to the latest Bollywood numbers. A barbed wire fence separates the girls from an all-male audience. It is a performance charged with sexual energy.
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