This is the millennium of MIRACLES…
Sea water has turned sweet…
Idols have sipped on milk…
Statues have shed tears of blood…
REDISCOVER YOUR FAITH !!!
Come… Seek Her blessings…
(Sic everywhere)
This is the print ad for ‘Jai Santoshi Maa’ (Hail Mother Santoshi)..more (probably accurate) information about Santoshi Maa here.
When there is enough evidence to prove that all the above mentioned miracles are not miracles…( here, here and here, for example, and for the third one, some more information here)
And pray(heh) , why do miracles happen in such ways? If I were an all powerful entity, I would try to get some, err, result orientation in my miracles, so that my simple (note the sarcasm) folk can get the message without having to make long winded logical connections. I mean, I make my statues weep blood. Or, I make sea water arund a shrine of mine turn sweet. What’s the point? Whay would I, as a Supreme Being do that? Might as well give my people some Majestic ‘darshan’ (Vision) of myself, complete with flying angels/assorted Gods/ multiple hands/Assorted Gods with multiple hands/ all of the above or as per your specific religious inclination.
Coming back to the ad, it is clearly meant to bring down the IQ of people to make more money for the producers and the gang involved in it.
How is this movie related to the miracles? Will we have Santoshi Ma, the latest entrant in the Hindu pantheon of Gods, turning sea water sweet, cry bloody tears or have her idol drink milk?
I have seen these type of movies before, so let me attempt to review this movie, in what is probably the first review of some work by a person who has not seen it.
Here goes : pretty, pious girl gets married into a rich family, where she is treated to various indignities for various reasons such as not bringing in enough dowry, not bearing a child or son, or just because she shows blind devotion to her favourite goddess, whom the film is named after (or the in laws feel like being the nasty sadists that they are)… pretty heroine starts/continues to pray piously, while she is being kicked, beaten, given unbelievable amount of household work, refused food, refused intimacy by her husband, and so on.
Suddenly, the goddess wakes up, solves the problem by doing something sufficiently nasty to her in laws, giving the husband a nice little attack of paralysis and doing other minor miracles along the way( Gods/ Godesses, as a rule, seem to make up for lack of result orientation in their real life ‘miracles’ in the movies). Pious heroine prays for forgiveness (notice the pious prayer recurring theme with the heroine?) and the in laws, shitting bricks by now in mortal fear of the immortal, have a heart ( and pants) change…husband, after being carried by the pious wife to pray (yes, again) at the HQ of the Goddess, suddenly turns out OK, and then, pious husband and wife pray and live happily ever after, having the requisite number of sons and probably a daughter (to keep it politically correct), thus demonstrating that the target of marital bliss is also hit along the way.
Go on, watch the movie if you want, and tell me if it is significantly different. You’ll probably get an ice cream from me ( or a word of encouragement regarding your inspiring, effective utilization of free time)
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