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WATER
WATER (PV/DVD)
Theatrical Release: 04/28/06
Airline Availability: 10/01/06
Key Facts:
| Territory: | All airlines and ships whose principal office for licensing is located in the United States |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Deepa Mehta |
| Cast: | Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Sarala |
| Theatrical R.T.: | 117:27 minutes |
| Airline R.T.: | TBA |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Synopsis:
Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from a lower caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
More Details:
| Critics' Reviews: | "An exquisite drama brimming with life and laughter and great tenderness and wrenching tragedy." "Deftly balancing epic sociopolitical scope with intimate human emotions, all polished to a high technical gloss, Deepa Mehta's Water is a profoundly moving drama." "'Water' glows from rich and natural lighting, warm and radiant colors, and powerful symbolic imagery." |
| Screeners: | shipping 4/28/06 |
| Short Synopsis: | Water begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist. |
| Logline: | The film examines the plight of Hindu widows forced to live in poverty during Colonial India. |
| Dubbed Languages: | English |
| Subtitled Languages: | English, Hindi (with English Subtitles) |
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