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Jai Santoshi Maa (1975)
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Add to a movie listJai Santoshi Maa (Devnagari: जय संतोषी माँ) is a 1975 low-budget Hindi film that became one of the top blockbusters of all time. Santoshī Mā (also called Santoshi Mata or Santoshi Maa) is a 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).
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The film opens in Dev Lok or "the world of the gods," a Hindu heaven located above the clouds, where we witness the "birth" of Santoshi Ma as the daughter of Ganesha, the elephant headed god of good beginnings, and his two wives Riddhi and Siddhi ("prosperity" and "success"). A key role is played by the immortal sage Narada, a devotee of Vishnu, and a cosmic busybody who regularly intervenes to advance the film's two parallel plots, which concern both human beings and gods. We soon meet the maiden Satyavati (Kanan Kaushal), Santoshi Ma's greatest earthly devotee, leading a group of women in an aarti (song and ceremony of worship) to the goddess. This first song, "Main To Arti Utaru", "I perform Mother Santoshi's arti," exemplifies through its camerawork the experience of darshan —of "seeing" and being seen by a deity in the reciprocal act of "visual communion" that is central to Hindu worship.Actors
Kanan Kaushal
(Satyavati Vyas (née Sharma))
Bharat Bhushan
(Pandit Devidutt Sharma)
Anita Guha
(Shri Santoshi Mata)
Mahipal Singh
Leela Mishra
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