Jai Santoshi Maa
Jai Santoshi Maa Devnagari is a 1975 lowbudget Hindi film that became one of the top blockbusters of all time. Santosh M also called Santoshi Mata is the goddess of satisfaction. Usha Mangeshkar, sister of Lata Mangeshkar sang the devotional songs for the film along with Mahendra Kapoor and the famous poet Pradeep, who wrote the lyrics of the songs.
Through the Mothers grace, Satyavati soon meets, falls in love with, and manages to marry the handsome lad Birju Ashish Kumar, youngest of seven brothers in a prosperous farmer family, an artistic fluteplaying type who can also render a zippy bhajan on request Apni Santoshi Maa, Our Mother Santoshi. Alas, with the boy come the inlaws, and two of Birjus six sistersinlaw, Durga and Maya named for powerful goddesses are jealous shrews who have it in for him and Satyavati from the beginning. To make matters worse, Narada in a delightful scene back in heaven stirs up the jealousy of three senior goddesses, Lakshmi, Parvati, and Brahmani a.k.a. Sarasvati the wives of the Hindu trinity of Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahmaagainst the upstart goddess Santoshi Ma. They decide to examine pariksha her perseverance Shraddha by making life miserable for her chief devotee.After a fight with his relatives, Birju leaves home to seek his fortune, narrowly escaping a watery grave planned for him by the goddesses through his wifes devotion to Santoshi Ma. Nevertheless, the divine ladies convince his family that he is indeed dead, adding the stigma of widowhood to Satyavatis other woes. Her sistersinlaw treat her like a slave, beat and starve her, and a local rogue attempts to rape her Santoshi Ma played as an adult by Anita Guha, taking a human form, rescues her several times. Eventually Satyavati is driven to attempt suicide, but is stopped by Narada, who tells her about the sixteenFridays fast in honour of Santoshi Ma, which can grant any wish. Satyavati completes it with great difficulty and more divine assistance, and just in the nick of time for the nowprosperous Birju, stricken with amnesia by the angry goddesses and living in a distant place, has fallen in love with a rich merchants daughter. Through Santoshi Mas grace, he gets his memory back and returns home laden with wealth. When he discovers the awful treatment given to his wife, he builds a palatial home for the two of them, comp
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