Originally posted by: _LalithaJanaki_
I never saw the movie you mentioned, but in the Black and White version, here's what happened.
The beginning is the same as Vibhishna just posted. After Lakshmi left, Vishnu also left Vaikunta to search for her and convince her to come back. Meanwhile, Brahma and Shiva, who wanted to assist Vishnu, came to Earth in the form of a Mother cow and a calf (I think Brahma was the calf, don't remember). Vishnu, when he could not find Lakshmi, decides to takes rest in a small hollow of a tree. The cow and calf meanwhile go to the house of a poor Brahmin, and he "adopts" them, thinking them to have no home. In the afternoon, the Brahmin rounds up all of his cows and takes them to a grassy field for pasture. Brahma and Shiva, in the form of the cow and calf, sense that Lord Vishnu is nearby and wander off from the others. They find Vishnu looking very tired and give him some milk. By this time, Vishnu took the form of a normal human.
The brahmin, finding two of his cows missing, goes in search of them and finds them giving milk to a poor looking man (Vishnu). He gets angry and hits the man on the forehead with a sharp wooden stick, accusing him of stealing his cows. Lord Vishnu in the form of the man bleeds on the forehead, and the Brahmin immediately goes blind for doing this wrong.
The story of Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma
becoming the mother cow and calf is different from what I heard. When
they transformed into a mother cow and calf, Surya Dev convinced
Lakshmi Devi to sell the cow and the calf to a Chola King. Lord Vishnu
had already been wandering for ages and ages in search of Lakshmi Devi.
He sits on the Earth to do penance and the ants build an anthill over
him. The royal shepherd took the cattle to graze everyday. Everyday,
the mother cow emptied her milk into the anthill, thus feeding Lord
Vishnu. The queen noticing that the cow did not yield milk, scolded the
shepherd. The next day the shepherd followed the cow and saw what she
did. Angered, he took a rod to beat the cow. Just when he was about to
strike the cow, Lord Vishnu broke open the anthill and shielded the cow
thus getting injured himself. The shepherd fell down dead on seeing the
Lord bleed. The cow went screaming to the king and the king hastened to
the spot to find Lord Vishnu bleeding. Lord Vishnu cursed the king that
he would become a demon. The king pleaded his innocence saying that he
knew nothing of that matter. The Lord said that the king was
responsible for whatever happened in his kingdom but later said that he
will be relieved from the curse when Akaasha Rajan presents him with a
crown on the occasion of his marriage with Padmavathi.
Then Vishnu wanders off again to search for a place he could stay in (at this point, the movie shows that he's forgotten that he's Vishnu; I don't know if it's true though). He eventually comes to the small hut of an old woman who has no family, but only kind friends. She sees Vishnu bleeding on the forehead, and patches up his wound lovingly as a mother would. She asks him what his name is and who his parents are. Vishnu replies that he has no name and no parents. The woman, thinking that he lost his memory, feels sorry for him and names him (I forgot what she names him, sorry😳).
Lord Vishnu wanders off for a place to stay and reaches the Venkatadhri Hill where Lord Varaha had made his abode. He asks for a place to stay and Lord Varaha says he can stay beside the Pushkarini there. Lord Venkateshwara was pleased and says that the offerings and worships should be made to Lord Varaha before it is offered to him. Also the devotees coming to see him should pay their obeisance to Lord Varaha before they come to him. There was a devotee by name Vakula Devi
She was given the duty of looking after Lord Venkateshwara which she did with a mother's love. She was Yashodha Mata in her previous birth. Once, when she was Yashodha, she expressed her wish to see his marriage as she had missed his wedding with Rukmini. She was promised that she will be born again in Kali Yuga where she will witness his wedding with Padmavathi.
It is revealed to us now that this old woman is a re-incarnation of Yashoda Ma from Dwapara Yuga. Yashoda, who had been sad that she never saw any of Shri Krishna's marriages, is granted a boon by Krishna that she would conduct his marriage in his next avatar. One day, Vishnu wanders off somewhere and sees the beautiful Princess Padmavathi with her friends. He falls in love with her and she reciprocates it, but when her parents the King and Queen find out that she fell in love with a common poor man, they get angry at her and lock her up in her room to prevent her from seeing him again. But their astrologer tells them that Padmavathi is none other than the re-incarnation of Chaya Sita from Treta Yuga, and the "common poor man" an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The story was that after the real Sita had been regained from the Agni Pariksha, Chaya Sita had no where to go and asked Shri Ram to marry her. Ramji told her that he vowed to take only one wife in that avatar, and he would marry her in another avatar. That very Chaya Sita was reborn as Princess Padmavathi. When Padmavathi's parents found out about this, they felt bad and went to Vishnu with apologies.
The marriage between Lord Vishnu and Padmavathi was done grandly, with the old woman supervising it. After some days, Vishnu and Padmavathi were strolling through a mountaineous area where Lakshmi was meditating. Lakshmi felt the presence of her Lord and woke up from her meditation. She went joyfully to him and saw him with Padmavathi. Insulted and angry that he had remarried, she told Padmavathi that she could have Vishnu and that she herself would go back into meditation since Vishnu had clearly abandoned her. By now, Vishnu had regained his memory that he was the Lord of Vaikunta. Padmavathi, feeling bad that she had gotten in between Lakshmi and Vishnu, told Lakshmi that she could have Vishnu and she herself would return to her father's kingdom. While Lakshmi and Padmavathi started arguing about who would go away, Vishnu smiled and took seven steps back. Each step became one of the Tirumala mountains. When Lakshmi and Padmavathi looked back, they saw their Lord as a statue. Then they too turned into statues. After awhile, a priest found their statues and put them in the Tirupati temple on the seventh hill.
This scene is so cute - Lord Srinivasa taking 7 steps behind and hence the seven hills were formed. But again, what I heard was different. There was a contest between Adhisesha and Vaayu Deva as to who was the stronger. Adhisesha took hold of a Hill and Vaayu Dev tried to blow it away from Adhisesha's grip. The worlds were being destroyed by the fierce competition and the Devas pleaded Adhisesha to relent. He did so for the good of all the living beings and the hill was blown away to a great distance. But Adhisesha was dejected over losing the contest and hence went to the Earth brooding over his failure. Some say that Lord Vishnu turned him into the mountain range that resembles a snake - the Sapthagiri - the seven hills and blessed him saying that he will reside there as Venkateshwara. Some say that the seven hoods of Adhisesha became the seven hills. Some say that Adhisesha himself turned to stone. The Seven Hills also known as Sapthagiri are Seshadri, Vedadri, Garudadri, Anjanadri, Vrishabhadri, Narayanadri and Venkatadri. The path we take to reach the top of the Hill on which the Lord resides passes through all Seven Hills.
This is how the movie showed it. I don't know how true it is though.😳
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