Water Movie Review 2005

Following Hindu custom in 1938 India, when child bride Chuyia's (Sarala) aged husband dies, her family sends her to live in exile in an ashram for widows. Chuyia can't understand and rebels against the restrictions until she is befriended by religious, middle-aged Shankuntala (Biswas) and beautiful, young Kalyani (Ray). Kalyani is forced to work as a prostitute to help support the ashram but falls in love with Narayan (Abraham), whose progressive views are inspired by Gandhi. However, their involvement leads to both tragedy and freedom. The last of Mehta's trilogy following "Fire" and "Earth." Hindi with subtitles.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 117 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

India

Cast

Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Raghubir Yadav, Kulbashan Kharbanda, John Abraham, Sarala, Manorama, Vidula Javalgekar, Vinay Pathak

Cinematography

Giles Nuttgens

Director

Deepa Mehta

Music

Mychael Danna, A.R. Rahman

Other

Colin Monie

Producer

David Hamilton, David Hamilton, Mongrel Media, Fox Searchlight