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Water

Item number (ISN):

386312

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2005

Item number (ISN):

386312

Type of material:

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

HAMILTON-MEHTA PRODUCTIONS INC.

Accession:

2007-0136

Media:

Film

Part:

6 of 6

Production date:

2005

Production company:

Canadian theatrical version
Hamilton-Mehta Productions Inc.

Production credit:

director/script, Deepa Mehta; producer/executive producer, David Hamilton; executive producer, Mark Burton; Ajay Virmani; Doug Mankoff; photography, Giles Nuttgens; editing, Colin Monie; Paul Whitehead; sound, Sylvain Arseneault; Bryan Day; Lal C. Dissanayake; Shreela Chakrabartty; sound editing, Mark Gingras; John Laing; John L'Oranger; music, Mychael Danna; A.R. Rahman; animation, Wojciech Kufner

Cast credit:

Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, H.T.J. Sarala, Manorma, Raghuvir Yadav, Dr. Vidula Javalgekar, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Vinay Pathak, Gerson Da Cunha, Ronica Sajnani, Meera Biswas, Waheeda Rehman

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Mongrel Media

Description:

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Deepa Mehta's WATER is a feature drama set in 1938, against historical backdrop of Colonial India at the time of Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for the liberation of the country. At the time, the practice of child marriage was still very common in the Indian society. Young girls were often married to much older men for various reasons, mostly financial. When the men passed away, they left behind young widows who were sent off to ashrams (institutions) where they lived in penitence and extreme poverty without being allowed to remarry. Considered an economic burden by their families, this was generally the destiny of most widows. WATER takes place in one such House of Widows. The story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to an ashram where Hindu widows of all ages were relegated to a life of deprivation and indignity. Chuyia becomes the catalyst whose forced move into the house causes a total upheaval in the lives of its dwellers, changing forever the wretched existence of many unfortunate women. Her presence especially affects two widows: Shakuntala, thirty years old, devout and smart, who goes through a crisis of faith - an interstitial state that places her at the crossroads of a radical choice; and Kalyani, eighteen years old, pure and pretty, who finds the internal strength to challenge the antiquated tradition and embrace the love of the ardent liberal intellectual Narayan. The background Gandhian struggle for the liberation of India is not conveyed as a monolithic struggle for national freedom from the British colonialists, but also a struggle for liberty from gender injustices caused by convoluted traditional beliefs and outmoded religious interpretations, which hindered India's social, cultural and moral progress. <1h 56mn 47s>

Language:

English / Hindi with English subtitles

Notes:

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1. Produced in association with Telefilm Canada; Noble Nomad Pictures Ltd.; and Echo Lake Productions LLC.~2. Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada; The Movie Network - an Astral Media network; Super Écran - an Astral Media network; Astral Media - The Harold Greenberg Fund; Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry (CTF: Licence Fee Program).~3. Produced in association with CHUM Television; Movie Central - a Corus Entertainment Company.

Genre:

DRAMA
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Hamilton-Mehta Productions Inc., 2005.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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