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	Bhavni Bhavai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bhavni Bhavai (A Folk Tale in English) is a 1980 Gujarati film directed by Ketahn Mehta.
		The film is dedicated to Bertolt Brecht, Goscinny and to the inventor of the Bhavai, Asait Thakore, who was a Brahmin outcast and lived among the lower caste communities.
		The film is in the form of a story told by a group of Harijans migrating to a city pausing for a night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhavni_Bhavai (193 words)

	DER Documentary: TRAGADA BHAVAI: A RURAL THEATER TROUPE OF GUJARAT
		DER Documentary: TRAGADA BHAVAI: A RURAL THEATER TROUPE OF GUJARAT
		Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe Od Gujarat
		Bhavai is the traditional rural theater of Gujarat.
	www.der.org /films/tragada-bhavai.html (122 words)

	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The caste of the performers of Bhavai came to be known as tragala.
		It is clear from the bhavai performance that this form must have evolved from the earlier known forms of folk entertainment.
		Bhavai is as much a form of entertainment as it is a kind of ritual offering made to Goddess Amba.
	www.3to6.com /final_theatre/fbhavai.htm (660 words)

	Folk Dances Of India - Gujrat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bhavai is the bawdy and sometimes poignant rural theatre of Gujarat, attributed to an outcaste Brahmin, Asaita Thakar, of the fourteenth century.
		Bhavai is traditionally associated with the festivals of the mother goddesses Ambaji and Bahucharaji (the patroness of Bhavai).
		The language of Bhavai is a blend of Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, and Marwari.
	www.indiaheritage.com /perform/dance/dgujrat.htm (420 words)

	SixtyFour Arts
		The caste of the performers of Bhavai came to be known as tragala.In one of his long poems Asaita has given the date of the composition as AD 1360.
		The word Bhavai in the sense of a show or spectacle occurs in the 13th century Apabhramsa Jain religious verse.
		Bhavai is also prevalent in Rajasthan as a folk dance comprising of a spectacular performance.
	www.sixtyfourarts.blogspot.com (2198 words)

	UNICEF India - Nutrition
		Bhavai - striking a combination of education with entertainment.
		The lines of the song were scripted by Bachubhai Varsaria of Gujarat Bhavai Kala Mandal especially for the dayâs performance on iodized salt in Gharana.
		Bhavai is an ancestral profession for Mugatlal Nayak who had played the character of Rangli, the female jester in the show.
	www.unicef.org /india/nutrition_949.htm (912 words)

	GUJARATI THEATRES GLORIOUS FLASHBACK
		The originator of the BHAVAI folk-drama was Asait (1361 A. D.) a brahmin of the village Oonza in the north of Gujarat.
		Bhavai performances were staged in open grounds before the farmers and all other community audiences who would come for entertainment after the day's tiring labour in their farms and shops etc. The Bhavai performers were called "BHAVAIYA".
		They had seen the dramas of the traditional theatre, had enjoyed "Bhavai" and other folk drama forms in the open grounds of villages and towns and now had the benefit of knowledge of the dramas written and staged internationally.
	www.bharatiyadrama.com /gujarati.htm (4363 words)

	Rajsamand: 02/27/2005 - 03/05/2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		During Bhavai dance there are some of musical instruments play with folk music like pakhwaja, dholak, jhanjhar, sarangi, harmonium and plaintive notes of the 'been' which is the wooden instrument of the snake charmers.
		Bhavai dance is very famous dance in Rajasthan India.
		During Bhavai dance there are some of musical instruments play with folk music like pakhwaja, dholak, jhanjhar, sarangi and harmonium.
	rajsamandplus.com /diary/2005_02_27_rajsamand_archive.html (3849 words)

	Nadiad keeps Bhavai alive
		Before the bhavai show, he personally visits the residents of the area and invites them to witness his vesh.
		The Bhavai veshas narrated orally are not found in any manuscript.
		The leader of Bhavai carries his chopada, which separates the narratives based on various religious theme like Ganapati, Shiva-Parvati and Kana Gopi.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/1999/oct/15bhavai.htm (420 words)

	indiainformation-communitees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They were the exponents of the folk-art of Bhavai.
		The attraction and involvement of the people for Bhavai have receeded with the advent of time.
		The community has preserved and nourished the cultural heritage of Bhavai in spite of the innumerable odds.
	www.indiainformation.com /communities/targala.htm (345 words)

	Dances in Gujarat
		The Bhavai drama is a continuous performance lasting the whole night in which many "veshas" are performed in the open without any stage equipment.
		The repertoire of the Bhavai is limited to about three dozen 'veshas', the authorship of which is attributed to Asait, the pioneer of Bhavai.
		In Bhavai, the artists of Nayak community present songs and drama and use them for the satire on the prevalent situation, customs, blind-faiths and taboos of the society so as to make people laugh on them.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /gujarat/dances/bhavai.html (296 words)

	September 22, 2001 - September 22, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		While the Bhavai has been written and directed by Rajul Mehta, a senior lecturer at the faculty, the performance will be by students.
		Bhavai is probably the only traditional art form that is able to mix entertainment with information.
		According to Mehta, the traditional Bhavai with its traditional folk songs, costumes and musical instruments, would be popular with citizens of Sanskar Nagri, as Vadodara likes to be called.
	www.gujaratplus.com /00-01archive/arc231.html (1008 words)

	Ketan Mehta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His repetoire of themes include comedy, satire, silvan romance, violence and rebellion.
		Ketan Mehta's very first film Bhavni Bhavai won him instant acclaim.
		His movies have been selected for various international film festivals such as Nantes (France) and the Moscow Film Festival, where his movies have won numerous awards over the years, including:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ketan_Mehta (257 words)

	Folk dance-Bhawai of Rajasthan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bhavai is actually a folk drama form, popular in Chittore district and in Gujrat.
		However, in recent period, Bhavai name got stuck to one dance form.
		Since, this activity was performed by Bhavai community, this dance form came to be known as "Bhavai".
	www.rajfolkvision.com /dances4.htm (165 words)

	Play time for mother-daughter duo- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nadira-Juhi take up bhavai, the fading theatre form of Gujarat in their latest play Jasman Odhan.
		She is adapting the famous but dying art form of Gujarat, bhavai into theatre through her latest play, Jasman Odhan.
		Bhavai has not died down like nautanki, but doesn’t enjoy much patronage today, thanks to the modern forms of expression in dramas.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-52794,prtpage-1.cms (425 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Bhavai tradition is facing an undeclared boycott in the era of television and multiplexes.
		The performers are old, weak-bodied and toothless." Bhavai epitomises vigour and is accompanied by lyrical and musical frenzy as a devotional tribute to Amba-ma, the Mother Goddess.
		"Bhavai was also exploited as a medium of propaganda by government departments of information as well as radio and television," says Baradi.
	www.the-week.com /24jun27/currentevents_article10.htm (13528 words)

	Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
		The programme starts with the presentation of a performance around the topic- often using characters and motifs from the Gujarati folk from Bhavai- and then moves to check comprehension and analysis through question-and-answer before giving out questionnaires bout home practices to be brought back later.
		Subsequent classroom activities (some continued in the wider school environment and at home) include segregation of different kinds of garbage, making compost pits, initiating community action, making things from discarded items, collecting press cuttings, drawing diagrams and pictures, writing and performing poems, songs, and plays on the issues.
		The style was presentational, street-theater, using traditional song, dance and narrative techniques derived from Bhavai and framed by a short contextualization and commentary by the project leader.
	www.iaac.us /ms_reviews2.htm (3751 words)

	WeGujarati.Com - Everything about Gujarati
		Folk drama in Gujarat is known as Bhavai.
		Women laborers engaged in house construction beat the floor for a glossy surface with a long sticks called as tippan.
		The Bhavai drama is a continuous performance lasting the whole night in which many "veshas" are performed in the open without any stage equipment.'Bhungal', a very long wind brass instrument, before and during the performance calls the rural patrons to the scene of the Bhavai.
	www.wegujarati.com /Dances.asp (319 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For five days from November 24, the city will serve as a melting pot for the indigenous arts and crafts of Gujarat in a novel showcase initiated by its government.
		One of the major attractions in this dance-art-theatre medley — called Gujarat Darpan — is Bhavai, a dying folk art form.
		Folk dance and Bhavai will travel to EZCC for more performances in the evening.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051120/asp/calcutta/story_5500075.asp (489 words)

	Navratri
		In Saurashtra, bhavai, a dance drama is played.
		At Vadnagar in Mehsana Vada Garbani Sheri is focus of the attention as large number of men and women participate in garba.
		A bhavai performance is also held at Baroda’s Ambaji temple, during Navratri.
	www.ahmedabad.com /travel/fairfest/navratri.htm (679 words)

	Manas: Culture, Indian Cinema- Smita Patil
		Her first major role as the woman who leads a Harijan revolt in Shyam Benegal's Manthan (The Churning) won her critical acclaim.
		Exceptional performances such as the outspoken tribal in Ketan Mehta's Bhavni Bhavai and as the struggling actress, Hansa Wadkar, in Benegal's Bhumika (The Role) established her reputation as a versatile actress both in India and abroad.
		In what was a unusual honor for an actress who was then less than 30 years of age, and had been working in the cinema for less than 10 years, her work was celebrated at the festival of La Rochelle and by the French cinematheque in 1984.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Culture/Cinema/Smita.html (385 words)

	"The right of artists to express themselves is the most sacrosanct right of all" A conversation with Indian ...
		A graduate of India's Film and Television Institute, the director, who is not related to Deepa Mehta, made Hindi-language television programs and documentaries before rising to prominence in India with a series of feature films in the 1980s.
		Early work by Mehta has a strong social content: Bhavani Bhavai (1980), which was made in Gujarat state, won several national film awards for its dramatic exploration of the social conditions facing the untouchables.
		It was dedicated simultaneously to Asait Thakore, a great Bhavai folkwriter, and Bertolt Brecht, because it derived a lot from his alienation theory of theatre.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/aug2000/kmin-a25_prn.shtml (1917 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		An orthodox Syrian Cathedral in Kerala adopted a traditional Hindu ritual, for the first time in an organised manner in the history of churches, when more than 50 children were initiated into the world of letters on the auspicious occasion of ‘Vidyarambham’ today.
		'Bhavai' dancer Chanda Gurava performs at a folk dance exhibition in Mumbai on Sunday.
		'Bhavai,' one of India's most spectacular dances, requires performers to balance up to nine brass pitchers on their heads while dancing on a bed of nails or glass, or on the edge of swords.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031006/nation.htm (3081 words)

	Tryindia
		There are two other important regional genres which share the basic form with those discussed above.
		Bhavai is Gujrati folk theatre, which dates back to the 14th century.
		It, consists of a series of play lets of varying lengths and on a variety of themes, which are performed through acting, dancing and singing.
	www.rangvarta.com /try-Folk.htm (505 words)

	event_srp_sivasagar
		In events of the second phase, which are currently scheduled, several other forms of traditional theatre from different states outside the north-east will be presented.
		These include well-known theatres like Yakshagana of Karnataka, Bhavai of Gujarat, Mach of Madhya Pradesh, Dhulia Bhaona of Assam, Tiatr of Goa, and Swang of Haryana.
		Together with performances, there will be lecture-demonstrations and interaction sessions with local theatre workers and scholars.
	www.sangeetnatak.com /event_paramparik_stm.html (415 words)

	Mother-daughter to 'play' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nadira Babar will be seen enhancing her acting skills.
		She will enact the famous art form of Bhavai into the stage through her latest play, JASMAN ODHAN.
		Juhi Babar, her daughter will also be seen in the play as the lead actress.
	movies.indiainfo.com /newsbytes/nadira_0703.html (80 words)

	Jaipur Alive To The World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This page describes shade of rhythms and melody that makes Rajasthan a traveler’s delight.
		Bhavai is a gracefully choreographed presentation by veiled women balancing seven to nine brass decanters as they dance nimbly.
		At the climax the lead dancer perches precariously on glass or even an edge of a sword to sway gracefully with hand movements.
	www.pinkcity.net /dance/dances.htm (295 words)

	rediff.com: The Millennium Special: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
		Although he has not made another feature so far, Mahapatra stands out as a unique talent in Indian cinema with this film.
		Bhavni Bhavai by Ketan Mehta: This Gujarati film is his best.
		In Bhavni Bhavai, he has used folklore with a lot of relevance and significance to portray contemporary times.
	www.rediff.com /millenni/adoor.htm (687 words)

	Cultural life (from Gujarat) -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		This dance is performed at the Navaratri festival, which honours the goddess Durga; the dancers move in a circle, singing and keeping time by clapping their hands or clashing together sticks called danda.
		A folk drama, the bhavai, also has survived.
		Saivism (Shivaism), the cult of the god Siva (Shiva), has long flourished in Gujarat; so, too, has Vaisnavism (Vishnuism, the worship of the god Vishnu), from which has emerged the cult of bhakti (devotion).
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-46257 (1213 words)

	Indian Cinema Database: Ketan Mehta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He associated with theatre groups like Dishantar, New Delhi and Indian National Theaters, Mumbai both as an actor and director.
		His first feature film Bhavni Bhavai was an adaptation of folk theatre.
		The film is dedicated to Brecht, Goscinny and to the inventor of the Bhavai, Asait Thakore, who was a Brahmin outcast and lived among the lower caste communities.
	www.chaosmag.net /ketanmehta.html (392 words)

	Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat VHS Jayasinhji Jhala/Roger Sandall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat VHS Jayasinhji Jhala/Roger Sandall
		Tragada Bhavai: A Rural Theater Troupe of Gujarat (1981)
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