Top 10 Movies to Know about Hindu Mythology
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Indian culture is well known all across the world for its richness and diversity. India has been the nation of spiritualism for ages and this has influenced indian cinemas as well. Not many but there are a few big-budget series, cinemas and indian mythology animated movies as films form a major part of people's social characterstics.
Here is a list of 10 Hindi devotional movies.
1. Mahabharat (1965)
I won’t narrate the complete story here, the Mahabharat is too well-known for that. Suffice to say that the film begins right in the middle of some action, without setting any preliminary background in place. At the court of the blind King Dhritrashtra in Hastinapur, the entire court is watching the two cousins Bheem and Suyodhan/Duryodhan engage in a wrestling match. Looking on are most of the rest of the people who’ll appear throughout the story. There’s the mother of the Pandavs, Kunti, Dhritrashtra’s wife, the mother of the Kauravs, Queen Gandhari, the patriarch Bheeshm ‘Pitamah’, and Dronacharya, the man who’s trained the Pandavs and the Kauravs in the martial arts.
2. Sampurna Ramayan (1961)
In Ayodhya there are festivities all over as the day has arrived when Raja Dashrath will be crowning his eldest son, Bhagwan Shri Ram, as the future King. But there is sorrow and anger in one part - that being with Rani Kaykayee - one of three wives of Raja Dashrath, who wants her son, Bharat, to be crowned King. Her laments and complaints make Dashrath give way, and she also makes him promise to banish Ramji from 14 years. Ramji accepts his step-mothers conditions, and sets out of Ayodha, with his wife, Seeta, and younger brother, Lakshman. Watch how the beginning of this journey is fated to bring the end of the tyrannical Raja Ravan, and his rule on Lanka.
3. Mahabali Hanuman (1981)
When childless Anjani prayed to Shiva to give her a son, he must have been listening because nine months and a visit from Marut, the God of Wind later, she delivers one, the young deity Hanuman. As a child Hanuman mischievously tried to swallow the sun, thinking it was a fruit. When he is smote for his unwitting trespass by Indra, king of the Gods, he lays lifeless, only to be resurrected and granted gifts by an assemblage of gods. These gifts along with his own virtues earn him the title of Mahabali, or The Mighty One. His life is the subject of this film, which focuses on both his childhood exploits and adult adventures.
4. Jai Santoshi Maa (1975)
Birajram intercedes when Satyavati is set upon by a criminal. They soon marry, but their relationship is marked by various hardships, including an extended period of separation. Inspired by a Hindu folk story, the film depicts the earthly fallout of a duel between deities. Satyavati is a follower of the goddess Devi Maa Santoshi, and it seems that other goddesses, angry that she's so powerful, are trying to prevent Satyavati from finding peace.
5. Char Dham (1998)
The film is a story about a young man and how he meets his separated family members when he visits four pilgrimage centres Badrinath, Dwarka, Rameshwaran and Jagannath Puri. A man was separated due to a scheming uncle who also reforms slowly towards him.
6. Shiv Mahima (1992)
Shiv Mahima is a 1992 Indian mythological movie produced by Gulshan Kumar under the banner of Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. It was directed by Shantilal Soni and written by Bhring Toopkari, and stars Arun Govil and Reshma Singh. The music was composed by Arun Paudwal. It is a story of a devotee of lord Shiva and how Shiva helps him.
7. Hari Darshan (1972)
Prahlad is a devoted worshipper of Lord Vishnu. This angers Ravan and he orders the boy to worship him instead. Upon his refusal, he orders that Prahlad be burnt alive. The story revolves around this plot and is amazing.
8. Karwa Chauth (1980)
Sitapur-based Mangala lives with her widowed mother and seven brothers, and is of marriageable age. Wealthy Banke Thakur would like to wed her, but she rejects him. She looks after an injured male, Anand, from Latpur, and after he recovers both fall in love with each other, and get married. She re-locates to live with his family, consisting of his brother, Mukund, and childless Bhabhi, Rani, who is very displeased as she wanted Anand to marry her gorgeous sister, Rambha; while Banke takes it upon himself to ensure that this marriage breaks up. Mangala continues to live in this household, and soon becomes pregnant. Mukund and Anand decide to travel for business purposes but promise to return before the baby is due. A few months later, they return and are told that Mangala has committed suicide after giving birth to a snake.
9. Dashavatar (2008)
Evil has been present during the evolution of mankind and the Dashavatar (ten incarnations of Hindu God Vishnu) have been constantly present to triumph over evil.
10. Bal Ganesh (2007)
Evil has been present during the evolution of mankind and the Dashavatar (ten incarnations of Hindu God Vishnu) have been constantly present to triumph over evil.