JAI SANTOSHI MAA

In 1975 there was a hindi film released by the name of jai santoshi maa,who is a hindu Goddess and the film became a cult film and became super hit.People used to go to theatres without wearing shoes and whenever the goddess  used to appear on the screen public used to throw coins and flowers on the screen.The moral of the story was that if you fast for 16 Fridays continuously without eating any food or fruit containing citric acid such as lemon or oranges then the goddess will fulfil all your wishes and it spread like wild fire.Most women started keeping fast and the ritual was that you have to give food to at-least 7 or 11 children and since this fast was for 16 weeks so every Friday we used to kept invited from more then 2 families and the item common in food was pooriees  ( Made of wheat flour & fried in heated oil ),choley( dish made of grams ),Kheer ( A sweet dish made with mixing milk in rice and sugar added to it and boiled to the maximum ).As i told you in my earlier blog that in bhopal we used to live like close knit family like village in the community and since we belonged to the upper cast ( Brahmins ) community of Hindus,so every family wanted us to eat at their place so we had no other option but to eat at each place on the same day.
Another hindi film which is considered to be the greatest hindi film ever till date was released at the same time called SHOLAY.It broke all box office records and every single dialogue of the films became so popular that every indian remembered the dialogue by heart and there was a character called Soorma Bhopali in the film which was  based on dialect spoken in a particular way in bhopal and we also started speaking like that in our daily life also.