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The controversial film extremist groups tried to stop with death threats, arson, and riots, but director Deepa Mehta would not be silenced. Extras include director's commentary, making of featurette, and behind the scenes featurette. 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 dance, Chuyia steals sweets for a dying old widow, the women dance and paint each other's faces during a color festival, and the Cinderella-story romance between Kalyani and Narayana shimmers with the promise of salvation and happiness. Mehta, however, knows it would be disingenuous to allow such an easy resolution to such a dire situation, and the final chapter of WATER takes a tragic turn.
Theatrical Release: April 28, 2006
Water Reviews: 3 stars out of 5 -- "[M]ehta's use of colour and landscape brings visual splash."-- Matthew Leyland, Total Film "Lisa Ray is moving as the ill-fated Kalyani, and Seema Biswas endows Chuyia's protector Shakuntala with the slow-burning strength she brought to her title-role debut in BANDIT QUEEN."-- Philip Kemp, Sight and Sound "[A]n exquisite film....Serene on the surface, yet roiling underneath....WATER flows with the simplicity of a fairy tale."
-- Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times "WATER cascades shimmeringly from one inspired, often bitterly ironic and always illuminating incident to another."-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "Deepa Mehta has made a haunting and disturbing film....It emerges as life-affirming..."-- Claudia Puig, USA Today Water | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.49) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 2006 | | All Time Sales Rank |  12565  | | CD Universe Part number | 7247638 | | Catalog number | 2236618 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 29, 2006 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | mature thematic material involving sexual situations, and for brief drug use | | Running Time | 117 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Subtitled |
Water DVD Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - Hindi
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Deepa Mehta - Director
Behind the Scenes:
1. Featurette
2. "The Story Behind The Making of WATER"
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