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Water (India) (2 Disc Set) (2005)

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Director:

Deepa Mehta

Starring:

Waheeda Rehman, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray

Genres:

Drama

Origin:

India

Certificate:

M

Languages:

Hindi With Subtitles

Running Time:

114 min

Water (India) (2 Disc Set)

synopsis


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 women 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 when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.

 
 

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