Bhau-beej
Bhai Dooj(भाई दूज) / Bhau-Beej / Bhai Tika / Bhai Phonta(ভাইফোঁটা) is a festival celebrated by Hindus of India and Nepal on the last day of the five-day-long Diwali or Tihar festival. This is the second day of the bright fortnight or Shukla Paksha of the Hindu lunar month of Kartika in Nepali Calendar.
The celebrations of this day are similar to the festival of Raksha Bandhan. On this day, sisters pray for a long and happy life for their brothers, by performing the Tika ceremony.
Regional names
The festival is known as:
Bhai
Bhai is an Urdu-Hindi word for Brother and may refer to:
Bhai (writer)
James Ramlall, also known as Bhai (born January 26, 1935) is a Surinamese poet.
Biography
He was born in the former district Suriname, studied in the Netherlands (Dutch language and literature and pedagogy) and India (philosophy and religion), and wrote his doctoral thesis on "The Problem of Being in Heidegger and Sankara".
He became Assistant Director of Culture and later director of Culture of the Surinamese Ministry of Education and Culture, and showed himself very active in the cultural world, including as founder of the conference center "Caribbean Centre" in Lelydorp.
He wrote poetry in Hindi and Dutch in the magazine Soela, philosophical and meditative. The Dutch work was bundled into Vindu (Hindi for: Secret, 1982) from which the concrete-imaging of his earlier poetry completely disappeared. For this bundle, Bhai received the Literature Prize of Suriname 1980-1982. Since then he turned to poetry, although he only wrote sporadic in "De Ware Tijd Literair".
In 2003, he received the Gaanman Gazon Matodja Award.
Bhai (1997 film)
Bhai is a 1997 Bollywood Action film directed by Deepak Shivdasani, while written by Kader Khan. The film starred Sunil Shetty, Pooja Batra, Sonali Bendre and Ashish Vidyarthi in lead roles. A remake of the Telugu movie Anna starring Rajasekhar, Roja Selvamani and Gautami Tadimalla, it was a huge success at the box office, and was one of the highest-grossing films of the year 1997.
Plot
Tired of facing assaults by the corrupt policemen and lawbreakers in the hilly village areas, Kundan (Sunil Shetty) decides to move to Mumbai with his younger brother Kisna (Kunal Khemu). With the help of honest lawyer Satyaprakash (Om Puri) and his two daughters Pooja (Pooja Batra) and Meenu (Sonali Bendre). Kundan soon gets a job as an auto driver, and begins to send Kisna to school. Soon they change their lifestyle and become city dwellers. Don David (Ashish Vidyarthi) and Malik (Rajendra Gupta) are arch rivals in the city, struggling to come to power, and corrupt minister Mantri tries to support both for his own profit.
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