Panjabi Wrestling - From India to the UK

Exploring the History of Pehlwani
A group of 12 young people from Slough Wrestling Club have explored the history of Panjabi Wrestling, known as Pehlwani.
They have undertaken research with an historian of the sport, taken part in workshops to understand the role of the sport in Panjabi heritage, culture and religion and also how it arrived in the UK with the diaspora who came from India and Pakistan from the 1950s. They have worked with a wrestling coach to learn the actual skills of wrestling that are currently being lost.
The group have learnt oral history and film making skills from digital:works and conducted interviews with older members of the UK based Panjabi community to explore and record the history of the sport. The interviews have been edited to create this informative oral history based documentary.
www.panjabiwrestling.org.uk
www.digital-works.co.uk

[@christopheradrien6829]

Wow, good stuff. I just discovered catch wrestling at the snake pit, Wigan, UK. That has somehow led me to be really curious about this style. I guess Brexit has triggered a lot of historical introspection for us and in particular given that I live in an area with a large South Asian community I would naturally become curious about India's native martial arts

[@rippersubmissionwrestling2704]

How do I get in touch with you as I have found a very good example of old book of pehlwani wrestling techniques

[@Chaos4190]

Thank you for making this documentary. I really wanted to learn about this culture of wrestling, like many in the video it was also a thing I had heard about from elder relatives. Without the benefit of video and photos of the time it was hard to really appreciate what they were talking about. Your documentary preserves something which might have been lost to time otherwise.

[@arjunrai9363]

I realised that these guys are a bit ignorant towards the real wrestling culture begening in india as before the sikh empire , many indian king empires used to wrestle and one man in this episode said he dosent believe in lord hanuman 😆😆😆 it seems they want to hide the hindu consiousness . Wrestling the oldest sport was first treated as mall yudh when lord of all universe and multiverse krishna defeated and killed kansa and these people dont talk about it . Dont worry , today the hindus are reading about there cultural history and have stopped being fooled .

[@binay9499]

Lord hanuman is the king of martial arts he created the original Thai boxing 🙏 🙌 Jai Hanuman ❤

[@singatakberpura]

Lol this is derived from the Hindu Akhada system

[@runjeet6193]

A fantastic wrestling film chartering the "Old style Punjabi wrestling" from Punjab India to UK. The traditions live on in Punjab, and the has gone over abroad to UK, Canda, USA, Malaysia, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand Etc. A superb story of traditional wrestling well documented and well crafted. Thank you DIgital works.

[@SatnamSingh-ef2qn]

Excellent vidio

[@cocteau65]

Rhat was fascinating, thankyou

[@sunilh5153]

Great documentary.