Ponniyin Selvan 6

 Several families had come with stewed rice and fancy picnic foods. Some stood by thewater's edge and ate their picnic rice dishes from platters of areca palm leaves. Others, more brave, had ventured further into the water to cross over to the bank of the Vadavaaru.Some children threw the platters from which they had eaten into the floodgates and clapped theirhands with laughter to see the petals float through the gates to be rushed onto the canals. Some
Mischievous young men plucked the flowers off the heads of their loved ones and threw them.into the water, only to see them thrown onto the shore.Vallavarayan Vandiya Devan stood there for a while, watching all this. He listened with an eagerear when some of the girls with pleasant voices sang. They sang traditional boat songs and flood-songs as well as folk songs like Kummi and Sindhu.