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Very good movie..Thank You Deepa Mehta! I understand there was a lot of difficulty getting this movie made and out to the public and I'm grateful to everyone who worked hard to that end.
The little 8 year old widow, Chuyia, played by Sarala is so typical of any 8 year old and it is heart breaking that she was doomed to a life of imprisonment/isolation/poverty in a temple away from her family and friends with other widows in which she is the youngest.
Lisa Ray playing the character of Kalyani a beautiful widow in her early 20's it seems, is forced to prostitute herself for the pitiful up keep of the others.
This takes place in Varanasi a holy city in India in 1930's. John Abraham plays a handsome well educated Brahman by the name of Narayan who meets and falls in love with Kalyani....I love a good love story that makes me cry at least once. I cried practically all through this...("Water"..perfect name for this..water has so many universal symbols)
This movie was released in 2005 and it states at the end that there are over a million widows living in India under these conditions.. I understand the "caste system" is still going on in India and on some level throughout the world and it is so sad.
I'd like to know if anyone out there knows first hand if this is true and if it's possible for a child as young as Chuyia to be caught up in this tragic cultural situation years after Gandhi.

>>By MissSuze (Sunday, 5 Aug 2007 18:26)

I suppose you can thank horrible weather for a little DVD orgy this week. I have been very, very lucky in stumbling over quite a few good ones.....Water was absolutely tragic and stunningly beautiful and I see the MIssSuze has given a very good synopsis. Now I can't wait to see the others of an apparent trilogy. Earth and Fire.

>>By rustytraveler (Saturday, 2 Feb 2008 21:00)

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