The magnificent car festival marked the ninth day of the temple festival.
Some problem happened. Being attended.
The magnificent idols adding fancy to the Lord’s vehicle.
There were too many people found inside the Car.
The ambulance and fire engine following as a precautionary measure to handle any emergency.
The Lord making the veedhi ula as Pitchandavar in the evening.
The next programme that followed was Thanga Kailaya Vahanam in the night. But I was not able to cover the event.
The evening which had just witnessed a rain made a good start with the speech by the dignitaries.
The dignitaries speech included a gift for the Cuddaloreans - there will be a watch tower built near the shore for the delight of the people of Cuddalore.
Prizes were given away to the winners of various events that had happened all during the festival. The body builders who came to get their prize made a good time for the photographers.
The fire works glittered the evening sky amusing the audience.
A performance by tribal people. The songs by them had very strong words. The dance by the girls made waves.
We might have seen the usual Bharatanatyam. But a boy of about 12 years age named Kasirajan from Pondy performed the feat with roller skates in his legs. At such an young age this wonder kid has perfected the art of dance plus the skating sport.
The performance of the cine troupe should start next. But their arrival and setting up of light and sound equipments made some delays. The organisers were pretty enough to make the delay into a good show. They made a sudden plan to insert a program by Kalakkal Man Saravanan. A pretty moments for the audience bursting into laughter by the good jokes of Saravanan. Although he has come for the day to get the prize for the programme he conducted on second day of summer festival, a sudden announcement welcomed him for the programme. Although its an adhoc show his performance was perfect in amusing the Cuddaloreans..
Now the programme by the cine troupe started with Snake Saravanan. The audience were dumb chilled on seeing such a long snake.
Oh the snake is biting his touge..
The dance programme started with Vandemataram song.
A perfect Bharatanatyam dance. 
Guess which great actor was mimicked..
Then came the much awaited dance by cine actress. The sound made by the audience outweighed that from the sound speakers.
A perfect dance from the youth team.
A chill wave passed to the audience..
Somewhat glamorous but wonderful dance .
The performers were so fast in their steps and perfect.
The next show combined dance with magic.
Audience were guessing for the natural legs and artificial legs of this man. But all guesses made were wrong it seems. No one could judge the correct answer. The performance by this chap was very much thrilling. 
A nice dance..
A part of the crowd. Hard enough to find free space .
This actor who has acted in movies like Sivakasi is part of the troupe.
A good dance and the costumes are good too…
A pair who presented the snake dance made a good and fast performance.
A somewhat risky step.
A nice dance..
The dance that chilled the audience..
Yemmadi…
Aathadi …
The laka laka laka - Chandramukhi has arrived.
The face expression was very nice.
Nanu Chandramukhi
A good dance.
Its rather hard to guess how these performer were so quick in getting ready for the different songs with different costumes. A well trained troupe.
The vazha meenu song.
The karakattam man who made wonders
-) with thambula thattu 
-) On a wooden plank atop just 3 soft drink bottles - too risky 
-) On a silver kudam
A chilling dance..
Of course this was the only second song where the traditional saree was worn by the dancer.
The ghana song from Paruthi Veeran made its debut. The youth in the troupe made a nice show and with costumes aptly matching to the song situation.
Oh its just ticking nearer to midnight..
A part of the government officials who ensured the good running of the show and safety for the public. A great work from them indeed. If anybody is telling “government machinery is not working”, just ask them to visit the Cuddalore District and take note of the systematic ways to organise each every event.
Remember our district is the first in making up the Tsunami Rehabilitation. The world took note of it.
The team leader of the Public Relations Department announcing the vote of thanks.
Ya at last I got the chance to photograph the man in close up. This is the person behind the success of the event.
The nice approach by this energetic man is the motivation factor that has made wonders in making the summer festival a magic.
The festival is well organised and without any untoward incidents.
In public gatherings of similar strength the usual announcement on the PDA will be the cautioning of public against thieves.
But there was no incident of thieves or any untoward events. Even a money purse left by a person was ensured that it has reached its owner.
An exemplary performance by the District Administration.
A BIG SALUTE to them…
The last day of the summer festival was fantastic. The show by the cine troop being a thrilling one.
As the editing of photographs is being done, the photos shall be posted tomorrow.
The veedhi ula by the deities in the evening of the seventh day - Thirukalyanam Parivettai
Pho
The veedhi ula by the deities in the evening of the sixth day on Velli Ratham.
The interesting events included in the the fourth day were sand sculpture, boat race and dog show.
But oh! the boat show was cancelled due to poor participation.
Now lets have a look of the events…
An orchestra performance going on…
A wonderful sand sculpture created by students of Barathiar Palkalaikoodam welcoming the photographers with delight.
The Dog show…
The organisers have planned it very well by arranging separate schedules for the different breed of dogs.
The presence of the Rajapalayam breed was quite wonderful. At some point of time they had some difference of opinion among themselves it seems and quarrelled a lottill their masters took turn to control them.
The kalakal of the dog show was one Great Dane which was so big enough with people commenting it as kannukutti (cow calf). Its height is double than the usual dogs, a first sight to many of the visitors. We were told that its from the owner of Krishnalaya Theater.
The show was great but enough lighting was not there to make good snaps. The lights provided were far off from the place of the show.
Then the wonderful performance of dogs from the police department continued. But lighting provided for the show was very poor for snapping. So I could not make it for our blog.
The flood light away from the place of the show helped me a lot, where I requested some of the dog owners for the photograph. They were kind enough to pose their vets for the photos. A big THANKS to them.
A shadow puppet show was going on at the stage. The officials informed that this is a very rare art. The two elderly people who performed the show are eager to teach this ancient art, so that it is propagated to the next generation, but the sad part is that there are still no takers. This art was being promoted by the grand daughter of our father of nation Mahatma Gandhi.
The performers of the shadow puppet show.
The interesting folk show called Thappatam continued. The performers were so skilled in their coordination of steps.
The show with the drums.
The veedhi ula by the deities on the evening of the fifth day on Theru Adaichan. A huge crowd made their presence on the most famous event of the temple festival.
A carnatic music troupe performing at the stage.
The veedhi ula by the deities on the evening of the fourth day on Naga Vahanam.
Artists performing at the stage.
Here is the glimpse of the cultural treat happening in our city.
The Therukoothu show was going on..
The performer who were fast making their steps. Somewhat there was a lack in coordination of their steps;; seems they got little time to practice.
This man lifting three containers filled with water to the brim. The great feat here is that he was lifting one of the containers with this teeth. A great performance.
The little boy thrilled the audience with his balancing trick that too upside down at great heights.
Another feat by the youth. They are totally fearless.
What you see here is a man stampeding the performer. The performer is lying on to thorny cactus branches.
The balancing trick on the nearly 20 feet high ladder..
Then came another troupe with their part for the folk art.
The wonderful show by the drum beaters…
A colourful show..
The people from the different groups joined together to make up a good dance…
A part of the crowd I snapped while leaving from the beach at 10.00 p.m.
