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Filmmaker
NRI Canadian Deepa Mehta's
movie "WATER"
Water,
which triggered violent protests while being filmed
in India,
Astonishing success of Water in Canada
- Canada, Jan 20,
2006:
Astonishing success of Water in Canada-
It has grossed USD 2.2 million in six weeks. I
wish I could whistle.I really don’t know why
it has touched a chord. Like Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s
Black, my Water portrays a very culture-specific
world. And yet the emotions go way beyond the immediate.
The emotions have to be culture-specific for them
to become universal. That’s the only explanation.I
don’t think it’s because it’s cool
and hip for Westerners to take in Indian culture,
or because Water is a ‘crossover’ film
whatever that means!
After the Hindu
fundamentalists shut down the production of Water,
I was in the dumps for many months," said Deepa
Mehta cheerfully. "But I reasoned out I needed
to do something to lighten up myself."
She did not want the fundamentalists to feel she
had been defeated, she said, hinting that she might
return to the Water project some day.
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
Language: HINDI
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: John Abraham, Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas,
Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Raghuvir Yadav,
Vinay Pathak, Rishma Malik
Music: A.R Rahman
Screenplay: Deepa Mehta
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