Water, Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Mongrel Media presents in association with Telefilm Canada, Noble Nomad Pictures, Echo Lake Productions ; a David Hamilton production ; a Deepa Mehta film ; produced by David Hamilton ; written and directed by Deepa Mehta
Type
Label
Water, Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Mongrel Media presents in association with Telefilm Canada, Noble Nomad Pictures, Echo Lake Productions ; a David Hamilton production ; a Deepa Mehta film ; produced by David Hamilton ; written and directed by Deepa Mehta
Language
hin
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexual situations, and for brief drug use
Main title
Water
Oclc number
70243935
Responsibility statement
Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Mongrel Media presents in association with Telefilm Canada, Noble Nomad Pictures, Echo Lake Productions ; a David Hamilton production ; a Deepa Mehta film ; produced by David Hamilton ; written and directed by Deepa Mehta
Runtime
117
Summary
It is 1938, the twilight of colonial India, as Gandhi's protests begin to change Indian society. But for some women, things may never change. As widows, they are condemned by Hindu law to spend the rest of their lives in an ashram, to live out their lives in poverty, chastity, and humble obscurity. Then Chuyia, a bewildered 8-year-old who doesn't even remember being married, arrives and upsets everything. Madhumati, the head of the house; Shakuntala, an assistant to a local holy man; and quiet, gorgeous Kalyani are all moved--in very different ways--by her arrival. For these women, the question remains: how far--and for how long--can this cruel injustice be continued in the name of tradition?
Table Of Contents
Main titles/Young widow -- Sisters in grief -- Prayer -- Runaway dog -- Gandhi -- No men allowed -- Water -- Sweets -- Night visit -- Auntie's death -- Reborn a man -- Narayan's note -- Kalyani at the temple -- Cloud messenger -- Lotus flower -- Sinful behavior -- Madhumati's parrot -- Freeing Kalyani -- Festival of color -- Kalyani's client -- One less mouth to feed -- Deceit -- Prayer meeting -- Take this child/End titles
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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- Arrepentimiento -- Teatro
- India -- Drama
- Widows (Hindu law) -- Drama
- Widowhood -- India -- Drama
- Melodrama -- Feature
- Motion pictures, Indian
- Widows + Legal status, laws, etc. (Hindu law) -- Drama
- Foreign films -- India
- Repentance -- Drama
- Foreign films
- Romance -- Feature
- Melodrama
- Hindi language films
- Feature films -- Canada
- Feature films
- Mujers + Condiciones sociales -- India -- Teatro
- Films for the hearing impaired
- Foreign language films -- Hindi
- Love -- Drama
- Widows -- India -- Drama
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- Arrepentimiento -- Teatro
- India -- Drama
- Widows (Hindu law) -- Drama
- Widowhood -- India -- Drama
- Melodrama -- Feature
- Motion pictures, Indian
- Widows + Legal status, laws, etc. (Hindu law) -- Drama
- Foreign films -- India
- Repentance -- Drama
- Foreign films
- Romance -- Feature
- Melodrama
- Hindi language films
- Feature films -- Canada
- Feature films
- Mujers + Condiciones sociales -- India -- Teatro
- Films for the hearing impaired
- Foreign language films -- Hindi
- Love -- Drama
- Widows -- India -- Drama
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