Navashakthi Vaibhava

Navashakthi Vaibhava is a 2008 Indian

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Plot

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In

After taking leave of the goddess, the group then travels to the Sharadamba Temple in Sringeri. While Vishnu, Saubhagya, and the children go to the temple, the tired relatives sit down under a tree. They ask Devi and Prasad to play some music, but they don't know how to play an instrument. They try, but the relatives insult their music. A woman appears with a sarangi, questions the relatives, and then plays melodious music. The couple returns and Vishnu wonders who the woman is since she plays soothing music. He thinks that the woman is goddess Sharadamba herself. Sharadamba casts a spell on the relatives that make them inadvertently reveal the truth about themselves. He then propitiates her and she blesses him and his family while also lighting the third lamp for them.

Next to visit is the Marikamba Temple in Sirsi. In the night, when the four are sleeping, the relatives kidnap the sleeping Prasad and Devi, put them in a palanquin, and let them loose on the river. Vishnu and Saubhagya look for them everywhere and approach their relatives at the river bank. They claim to have not seen them. Goddess Marikamba arrives in the form of an aged lady on a coracle and tells them that some valuables are there in the palanquin. Vishnu and Saubhagya open it and are shocked to find their children inside. They thank the lady and return home happily. Before leaving the next morning, they light the fourth lamp.

They then travel to

While visiting the Renuka Yellamma Temple in Saundatti and the Banashankari Temple in Badami, the relatives' attempts at killing the children and grabbing the wealth go futile. When Vishnu and his family are outside, the relatives try to blow away the lamps by sitting on them, but they get burnt badly. While in Gokarna, the relatives hatch a plan to get the wealth by choking the grandmother to death and then arranging the funeral, since an immediate death in the family will render the vow useless. The procession ends up at the Bhadrakali Temple. The goddess Bhadrakali arrives in the form of a tantrik and loudly asks the procession why they have arrived here. When they tell her the reason, she says the old lady is not dead. She shouts at the corpse and it wakes up alive. Then she explains the history and the importance of the temple, saying it was built to ensure the protection of the place. Vishnu and his family also get the lamps lit.

All throughout the journey, the jealous relatives try to kill the children & disrupt the pilgrimage, but each time, their efforts are thwarted by the goddesses. Finally, at Kollur, they resort to black magic. Meanwhile, Vishnu is at the Mookambika Temple, worshipping the goddess. Prasad and Devi plan to hold a dance performance, but as they are practising, the sorcerer chokes them. Saubhagya, horrifyingly watching them, prays to goddess Mookambika to save her children. Mookambika appears in the form of a woman and heals them. She then tells Saubhagya that the children are destined to become great people in the future. The other goddesses also appear to watch the performance and get the kids dressed up in their costumes. As the performance begins, the sorcerer chokes them again to the brink of death. Vishnu and Saubhagya pray to the nine goddesses and the eight goddesses merge into Mookambika & kill the sorcerer & relatives, by burning them. Mookambika resurrects the children and restores their voices. The children complete the performance, followed by a loud applause from the audience. The nine goddesses bless Vishnu, Saubhagya, Devi, and Prasad as the film ends. The family then returns to Bengaluru.

• Ramkumar as Vishnu
• Shruti as Saubhagya
• Master Ramprasad as Prasad, Vishnu & Saubhagya's Son
• Kumari Arpitha as Devi, Vishnu & Saubhagya's Daughter
• Jayamala as Goddess Mookambika
• Sudharani as Goddess Sharadamba
• Chamundeshwari
• Anu Prabhakar as Goddess Annapurneshwari
• Vijayalakshmi as Goddess Banashankari
• Ruthika as Goddess Bhadrakali
• Radhika Kumaraswamy as Goddess Durga Parameshwari
• Dhamini as Goddess Renukadevi aka Yellamma
• Marikamba
• M N Lakshmidevi as the evil grandmother
• Nagashekar
• Bank Janardhan
• Shobhraj
• Soundarya as Renukadevi (cameo appearance using archive footage)

The film was launched on 6 September 2003 at Kanteerava Studios.^[1] Actress Soundarya, was initially cast to play the role of goddess Renukadevi, but her death in a plane crash in 2004, left the crew with a predicament, so actress Dhamini was cast in Soundarya's role, with Soundarya's scenes taken from her movie Sri Renukadevi, which was released 1 year before her death.

The film's background score and the soundtracks are composed, written by Hamsalekha. The music rights were acquired by UCA Audio.

A critic from Sify wrote that "The only beauty of this film is that the audiences can watch the nine popular goddesses".^[2][3]

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