 Bollywood's "Nadiya Ke Paar" is one of the best-known Bhojpuri-language movie.The first Maithili-language film was 1965's "Kanyadan", directed by Phani Majumdar.The film, about a man who decides to learn Maithili because it is his wife's only language, is based on Harimohan Jha's Hari Mohan Jha novel "Kanyadaan".