Jai Santoshi Maa
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| Jai Santoshi Maa | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Vijay Sharma |
| Produced by | Satram Rohara |
| Starring | Bharat Bhushan Ashish Kumar |
| Music by | C. Arjun |
| Cinematography | Sudhendu Roy |
| Release date(s) | 1975 |
| Running time | 130 minutes |
| Language | Hindi |
| IMDb profile | |
Jai Santoshi Maa (Devnagari: जय संतोषी माँ) is a Hindi film.[1] It tells the story of how a young woman overcomes various life challenges through devotion to Santoshī Mā (also called Santoshi Mata or Santoshi Maa), a goddess of satisfaction who was not widely known prior to the release of this film in 1975.
Following the release of the film Santoshi Maa has been worshipped as a goddess, particularly by urban women in Northern India.[2] [3]
In the film, Santoshi Maa is depicted as a daughter of Ganesha.
In the film Ganesha is depicted as a householder (gṛhastha) with wives, sons, and a sister. As is common in North India his wives are depicted as Riddhi and Siddhi. His sons are depicted as Shubha and Labha. The boys are are unhappy because they, unlike Ganesha, have no sister. But Ganesha is ambivalent about having another child. The boys and the women plead with Ganesha, and the sage Nārada convinces him that having a daughter would be good. Ganesha assents and from Riddhi and Siddhi emerges a flame that engenders Santoshī Mā.
The script for the film has no basis in Puranic legend or other known scripture. In particular the claims that Ganesha had a sister and a daughter appear to be unique to this film. In Maharashtra there is a popular belief that Ganesha has a sister in each of the four directions and he goes to meet each of them annually on the occasion of Ganesha Caturthi.[4] But this is not the same myth as depicted in the film.
[edit] References
- ^ "Jai Santoshi Maa". IMDb. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
- ^ Cohen, Lawrence. "The Wives of Gaṇeśa", pp. 130 in: Ganesh: Studies of an Asian God, Robert L. Brown (editor), SUNY Series in Tantric Studies (State University of New York Press: Albany, 1991) ISBN 0-7914-0657-1.
- ^ Santoshī Mā is discussed by Thapan, Anita Raina. Understanding Gaņapati: Insights into the Dynamics of a Cult. (Manohar Publishers: New Delhi, 1997). pp. 15-16, 230, 239, 242, 251. ISBN 81-7304-195-4.
- ^ Thapan, op. cit., p. 239.
