Water

September. 08,2005      PG
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.

Lisa Ray as  Kalyani
John Abraham as  Narayan
Seema Biswas as  Shakuntala
Waheeda Rehman as  Bhagavati, Narayan's Mother
Vinay Pathak as  Rabindra
Rishma Malik Scott as  Snehalata
Manorama as  Madhumati
Raghubir Yadav as  Gulabi
Kulbhushan Kharbanda as  Sadananda

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Reviews

Rijndri
2005/09/08

Load of rubbish!!

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GrimPrecise
2005/09/09

I'll tell you why so serious

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Reptileenbu
2005/09/10

Did you people see the same film I saw?

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CrawlerChunky
2005/09/11

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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DeadMan66
2005/09/12

Movie is so emotional that you can't hold your tears. It a love story of a widow woman and man from 1938. It lot of social practice were present in back those days in India which people call it culture. I almost cried at the end and didn't went how I was expecting. Main theme of movie is to show how social evil practice were present like child marriage, widow have to live their life miserable. And in the name of culture they were running sex. I don't want to spoil the movie so I'll keep it short. I don't know why this movie is banned in India even after Independence and when all social evil practice are stopped. I think the mind set of people is still not developed on these issues.

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sol-
2005/09/13

Sent to an ashram (commune) for widows as per Hindu tradition after her husband passes away, a child bride resists and rebels in this Canada/India co-production set during the 1930s. There are some excellent tracking shots as she scurries back and forth through the commune where she finds herself at odds to the other much older widows living there and the atmospheric music by Mychael Danna and A.R. Rahman is great. A pivotal plot turn occurs as the child bride finds a twenty-something lady living in isolation in the commune. The child soon takes it upon herself to help the young woman find romance again (forbidden as it is by their religion); after all, if she can get the young lady to find love again, maybe everything is not hopeless for her. Fascinating a slice of life as 'Water' might spin, the film spends a little too long on the young lady's love affair for its own good. The power of the movie comes from everything being told from the child's perspective with all the hopes and dreams that a youngster still has, as well as all the questioning of traditions and customs that she does not understand. A brief appearance by Gandhi also feels a tad distracting. When the film focuses on the child bride, it is thoroughly encapsulating to view. Sarala Kariyawasam is simply excellent as the young girl in question with a constantly unbroken spirit that is inspiring to view.

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claire-frohling
2005/09/14

I think that one of the most remarkable parts of the movie Water, directed by Deepa Mehta, is in the beginning, when a little girl named Chuyia is asked by her father if she remembers getting married, and she replies that she does not remember. She is eight years old at the time. Chuyia's husband dies, and she becomes a widow for the rest of her life. She is required to cut off her hair and she goes to live with other widows. The movie is set in 1938. Thinking about this aspect of Hindu life opens my eyes to how different the world was not so long ago. The girl, Chuyia is ripped away from her family, and is forced to live a brand new life, and she didn't choose any of it. She did not choose to be a widow or to live in this facility, and she never even got to choose to get married in the first place. Chuyia begins to make friends in the ashram. One of them is Kalyani. She is a widow just like Chuyia, except she has been forced into prostitution by the head of the ashram for financial reasons. This is why Kalyani is the only one who can keep her hair in the ashram. One day, Chuyia chases Kalyani's dog down the streets when it runs away. She runs into Narayan, who is a follower of Gandhi. Kalyani and Narayan end up falling in love. There is a glimmer of hope for the two, when a law is passed that widows are allowed to marry. The same is true for Chuyia, and she has more hope for a better future. Overall, the movie is a great depiction of how widows in India were treated. It seems so wrong that they are being treated like this, just because they no longer have a husband. In this situation, Mahatma Gandhi saved so many widows, because they were now able to live like the rest of the world's widows and remarry, or simply carry on a regular life.

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waterlt00
2005/09/15

am thinking seriously about this type movies change our life, if we have real human heart and good thought we get real way about this type story, writer really highlight good points, in short word this story an amazing... anadian film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with playscript by Anurag Kashyap,.[3] it's set in 1938 associated explores the lives of widows at an ashram in Varanasi, India. The film is additionally the third and final installment of Mehta's components triplet. it had been preceded by hearth (1996) and Earth (1998). Author Bapsi Sidhwa wrote the 2006 novel based mostly upon the film, Water: a unique, revealed by Milkweed Press. Sidhwa's earlier novel, Cracking Asian country was the premise for Earth, the second film within the triplet. Water may be a dark meditate into the tales of rural Indian widows within the Forties and covers arguable subjects like hate and ostracism. The film premièred at the 2005 Toronto International fete, wherever it had been honored with the opening Gala, and was discharged across North American nation in Gregorian calendar month of that year. it had been initial discharged in Asian country on nine March 2007.you can get some info about water in my site www.waterlt.comthanks

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