Jai Jagannatha

Mu Odia, sabuthu Badhiya
Jai Jagannatha is a 2007 Indian Sanātana Dharma film directed by Sabyasachi Maichiya, released in 15 languages. Besides Odia and Hindi, its dubbed versions were released in English, Bengali, Assamese, Chhattisgarhi, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Nepali languages.

Synopsis

The story of Jai Jagannatha is based on the ancient scripture Laxmi Puran. The untouchables were not allowed to pray, worship and do rituals to God in the ancient ages. Sriya, one of the important characters in this story, dares to pray and worship and wins over the support of Goddess Lakshmi. The real drama begins when Lakshmi is separated by Lord Jagannath at the behest of his brother Balram because she ends discrimination on earth by encouraging even untouchables to conduct rituals and worship.
As Lakshmi moves out of Jagannath’s household, Jagannath and Balram undergo immense suffering — so much so that they have to starve without water and food. The curse of Lakshmi had such a severe impact on the brothers that for 12 years they had a tough time. Soon they realised the importance of Lakshmi and were keen to bring her back to their abode.
Lakshmi returned to Jagannath’s abode on one condition: There will be no discrimination of caste and creed on earth.
This unique story highlighted that for God everyone was equal besides it reflected the reforms and progressive stance of Gods from the ancient times. Only in the end through Narad it is revealed that Jagannath to end casteism and discrimination had "set up" these series of events which highlighted the social message besides the strength of true spirituality.

Cast

Sritam Das as God Jagannath
Jyoti Mishra as Goddess Laxmi
Pintu Nanda as God Balabhadra
Mohini Shilalipi as Sriya Chandaluni
Sadhu Meher as Sriya's father-in-law
Sarat Pujari as Gajapati King
Shahnawaz Pradhan as Royal Priest
Birendra N. Gochhikar
Mantu Mohapatra
Debashish as Devarshi Narada
Ratan Meher as Bikram Sadhaba
Monalisa as Pramila
Guna Mohapatra
Hara Pattanaik as Jeweller
Pradyumna Lenka
Ramachandra Pratihari

Production

Filming Location: Puri, Odisha & Umargaon

Awards

Odisha State Film Award: Best jury award & best editor award.

Reception

Jai Jagannatha, a movie directed by the director Sabyasachi Mohapatra is being released with a record number of 13 languages apart from originals in Odia and Hindi. Jai Jagannatha is a multilingual socio-mythological feature film. State of the art graphics, rich production values and divine music are the highpoints of Jai Jagannatha. This socio-mythological film has six songs in all.