Water Movie Review

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Deepa Mehta's Water Movie

Water is a movie that portrays the opposition of two very different sensibilities on the part of writer and director Deepa Mehta. Some of the subjects of this movie, the politico-cultural protest and the cries of the oppressed for the reform, are fueled by their rage. Deepa Mehta wishes to destroy a practice and end it once and for all.

Mehta’s other motivation is that she wanted to show the main idea of the film in as minimal a way as possible. She wanted to ease the audience in to the movie, not scare them out of their wits about the truth behind the issues that the film is showing. The end result has become a movie that is amazing and eccentric at the same time and one that can jump into the main point that will shock people into taking action.

The subject was so sensitive to the people whom Mehta and her crew enraged in India, that they had no choice but to go to Sri Lanka where George Lucas assisted them in their cause. What, pray, tell, is the reason for all the hostility? It is the issue of what is called as widow wastage.

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A long time ago, widow wastage was the immolation of a widow on her husband’s funeral pyre. This is because a woman with no husband is just a burden to society and is better dead. That practice was discontinued 70 years ago only to be replaced by an allegedly more human alternative. Now, a widow becomes consigned to an ashram.

This is a sort of boarding house for widows, sentenced for all of their lives to be imprisoned no matter what her age is. They live with other widows in isolation while living on charity, subsistence gardening and the occasional if only discreet kind of prostitution. There is no limit on the age because even a 10 year old child bride is subject to this kind of fate if she has become a widow.

In the movie, Chuiya, the main female protagonist is played by Sarala, a talented Indian child actress. Chuiya is left at an ashram by her father who disagrees to that kind of treatment but has no choice in the matter at all.

After a heart-wrenching scene where the doors to the ashram are forever sealed for Chuiya, the audience begins to discover who she really is; a resilient and determined girl. Very soon she has made uproar in the ashram with her unrelenting energy, curiosity and overall optimism.

The boarding house movie shows Chuiya going from room to room where she discovers different kinds of women like Kalyani, a beautiful widow played by Lisa Ray, who is much to energetic to choose silence in the ashram. Gulabi, who is played by Raghuvir Yadav, is the matriarchal figure who presides over the ashram.

Shakuntala is played by Seema Biswas. Shakuntala is an embittered, middle-aged woman who Chuiya finds is extremely capable if only she were not in the same predicament as the other widows.

The movie revolves around the worst experiences that these women have to face in their ashrams. Mehta feels that to shock and outrage the audience she needed to show them the truth, no matter how horrifying the thought of it all is. The movie will keep the audience riveted and the exemplary acting talent of the cast will take your breath away.

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