Water (2005)

20051h 40mdir. Deepa MehtaCanada, Indiadrama filmromance film

Note: this print runs 100 minutes against a recorded 114 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Vinay Pathak, John Abraham, Sarala Kariyawasam, Manorama

Directed by Deepa Mehta

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Water (Hindi: जल, romanized: Jal) is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap. It is set in 1938 and explores the lives of widows at an ashram in India. The film is also the third and final installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy. It was preceded by Fire (1996) and Earth (1998). Author Bapsi Sidhwa wrote the 2006 novel based upon the film, Water: A Novel, published by Milkweed Press. Sidhwa's earlier novel, Cracking India was the basis for Earth, the second film in the trilogy.

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