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Water
- Director: Deepa Mehta
- Writer: Anurag Kashyap; Deepa Mehta
- Producer: Mark Burton; David Hamilton
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Part 3 of the trilogy...and nominated for an Oscar!
This has been lavished with praise - is it the same film that we sat and watched!?!
Yes, it is a very attractive film to look at (if you like everything tinged blue) and pleasant to listen to...if you like sitars.
However, the acting is diabolical and the script is a bomb.
Ms Mehta - an inexplicably over-rated director.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is unceremoniously left at a bare and impoverished widows' ashram, beside the Ganges during monsoon season. The ashram's leader pimps out Kalyani, a young and beautiful widow, for household funds. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her. Can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? The ashram's moral center is Shakuntala, deeply religious but conflicted about her fate. Can she protect Kalyani or Chuyia? Amid all this water, is rebirth possible or does tradition drown all?
Cast & Characters
Sarala as Chuyia;
Buddhi Wickrama as Baba;
Rinsly Weerarathne as Chuyia's Husband;
Iranganie Serasinghe as Mother in Law;
Hermantha Gamage as Barber;
Ronica Sajnani as Kunti;
Manorama as Madhumati;
Rishma Malik as Snehalata;
Meera Biswas as Gyanvati;
Vidula Javalgekar as 'Auntie' Patiraji;
Seema Biswas as Shakuntala;
Lisa Ray as Kalyani;
Sanoja Bibile as Woman Bather;
Dolly Ahluwalia as Upset Woman;
John Abraham as Narayan