Navaratri festival commences, people perform Garba in traditional attire

As the Navarati festival commenced on Tuesday (October 13), people dressed in traditional attire during the festival evenings gather and join in the religious dance called 'Garba'.

Vadodara Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Leena Patil participates in the Vadodara Navaratri Festival at Navlakhi grounds on Tuesday. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor was also seen at the festival event enjoying the Navaratri festival in Vadodara.

Karisma Kapoor smiles and waves to the crowd during the Navratri Festival in Vadodara on Tuesday. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Actress Karisma Kapoor poses with participants of the Vadodara Navratri Festival. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Karisma Kapoor poses for a selfie with participants of the Vadodara Navratri Festival at Navlakhi grounds on Tuesday. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Garba is a traditional dance form of Gujarat and is performed during the nine-day Navaratri festival by both men and women. Both men and women usually wear colorful costumes while performing garba and dandiya. A woman performs Garba in the Vadodara Navratri Festival on Tuesday. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Girls during Navaratri festival wear chaniya choli, a three-piece dress with a choli, which is an embroidered and colorful blouse, teamed with chaniya, which is the flared, skirt-like bottom, and dupatta while boys wear kafni pyjamas with a ghagra - a short round kurta - above the knees and pagadi on the head with bandhini dupatta, kada, and mojiris. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Lights, lamps, music and joy among the people as they dance Garba during the festival evening in Vadodara. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Women adorn themselves with jhumkas (large earrings), necklaces, bindi, bajubandh, chudas and kangans, kamarbandh, payal, and mojiris while performing Garba during the Navaratri festival. (Source: Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

Foreign students try out Garba steps at a Navaratri venue in Maninagar locality of Ahmedabad. (Source: Express Photo by Javed Raja)

A foreign student wears a pagadi on the head and dances Garba during the Navaratri festival evening in Maninagar locality of Ahmedabad. (Source: Express Photo by Javed Raja)

Huge crowd seen at a Garba venue in Maninagar locality of Ahmedabad. (Source: Express Photo by Javed Raja)