The annual Aadi Perukku festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu, southern India sees devotees line up to have coconuts smashed open on their heads by priests.<br /><br />Filmed on August 4, devoted worshippers wait as the chief priest makes their way around cracking coconuts open on their heads.<br /><br />The coconut ritual has been around for a long time and it involves smashing of a coconut on the head of a devotee in a plea to the gods for good health and success.
