WATER
India 2006
(language is Hindi)
The film is the third part of a trilogy by Deepa Mehta which was preceded by Fire
The banishmemt of widows, many of them very young girls, from Indian society during the 1930’s is denuded as an ecconomic ploy mascarading as spiritual rightiousness. The film is breathtakingly beautiful, distressing and poignant.
Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman and Raghuvir Yadavarala Writer and Director: Deepa Mehta