WATER (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 2005
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste.; A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.; A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal.; The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred Hindu texts); ; Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, the story begins as eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.; ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------; ; The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. (S - 3);
• Cast: Sarala, Buddhi Wickrama, Rinsly Weerarathne, Iranganie Serasinghe, Hermantha Gamage, Ronica Sajnani, Manorama, Rishma Malik, Meera Biswas, Vidula Javalgekar, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Sanoja Bibile, Dolly Ahluwalia, John Abraham, Waheeda Rehman, Daya Alwis, Raghuvir Yadav, Vinay Pathak, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Delon Weerasinghe, Seema, Francisca Mudannayake, Mulchand Dedhia, Isuru Navodya, Niroshan Wijesinghe, Gerson Da Cunha, Vasant Nath, Mohan Jhangiani, Zul Vilani, Kumari Dissanayake, S. Thevanamma, Seelawathie Silva, Siththi Ummah, Fowzie Inaya, Mala Meenachchi, A.A. Premawathie, Nazeema Farlya, T. Mageswari, H. Pathiranage, S. Pooneswary, S. Parameshawari, S. Santhanam Mary, S. Rajeshwari, Deepa Mehta, Seema Azmi, Rehan Mudannayake, Anurag Kashyap, Mark Burton, Doug Mankoff, A.R. Rahman, Mychael Danna
• Director: Deepa Mehta
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Mongrel Media, Telefilm Canada, Noble Nomad Pictures Ltd., Echo Lake Production LLC
• Media Format: Movie