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Water (2005) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Apr 28, 2006
BoxOffice: $3.1M
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexual situations, and for brief drug use.
Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes
Country Canada, India
Production Companies
Deepa Mehta Films, Flagship International, David Hamilton Productions, Echo Lake Productions (I), Noble Nomad Pictures Ltd., Téléfilm Canada
Studio Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Other Titles
• River Moon
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Plot: When Deepa Mehta first began filming WATER in 2000, angry fundamentalist mobs burned her sets and threatened her life. The Indian government claimed it could not protect her, and the project had to wait four years before finally filming in Sri Lanka. Her film has raised the ire of extremists because it challenges the Hindu customs that dictate that widows, considered half-dead after the loss of their husbands, must be closeted in holy ashrams--a practice that still exists today. Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of eight-year old Chuyia, whose husband dies before she even meets him. Her parents shave her head and whisk her away to a house of widows where the women sleep on the ground and beg in the streets to earn their puny portion of rice. Chuyia, feisty and resilient, comes into this world like a ray of light, and soon the women are rethinking their mute acceptance of their fate. Her closest friend and ally is the lovely Kalyani, and soon a forbidden romance begins to develop between Kalyani and Narayana, a young Brahmin man who, following the teachings of Gandhi, has denounced injustice.The film is sumptuously beautiful, Chuyia is utterly winsome, and despite the harsh social issues at its heart, it often feels light and lively: Chuyia and Kalyani play games and
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