Desi tadka: Mahesh Bhatt beats 'Ice bucket' with 'Rice Bucket', now Karan Johar challenged!
Hyderabad, Sep 5: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Friday took up the 'rice bucket challenge' by distributing 'biryani' packets among the needy at a programme organised here by Taj Falaknuma Palace, a hotel of the Taj Group.
Bhatt challenged young filmmaker Karan Johar to participate in a similar charity programme.
"We challenge the film industry's young and talented filmmaker Karan Johar... We have lit a lamp here. You light a lamp there. That is only way we can end the darkness from the country and the world," he said while talking to reporters.
Bhatt stressed the need to inculcate empathy towards the weak, saying the initiative has rekindled the great Indian tradition of sharing.
The rice bucket challenge is the Indian version of the famous 'ice bucket challenge' of the US.
It involves donating a bucket of rice to the needy and clicking a picture and posting it online to raise awareness.
With agency inputs
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Friday took up the 'rice bucket challenge'
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Friday took up the 'rice bucket challenge' by distributing 'biryani' packets among the needy at a programme organised here by Taj Falaknuma Palace, a hotel of the Taj Group.
Bhatt takes up 'Rice Bucket' challenge
Bhatt challenged young filmmaker Karan Johar to participate in a similar charity programme.
Bhatt takes up 'Rice Bucket' challenge
"We challenge the film industry's young and talented filmmaker Karan Johar... We have lit a lamp here. You light a lamp there. That is only way we can end the darkness from the country and the world," he said while talking to reporters.
Bhatt takes up 'Rice Bucket' challenge
The rice bucket challenge is the Indian version of the famous 'ice bucket challenge' of the US.
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