TV Guide: Online Video Guide Water

Water: Trailer

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:29:54 -0500

Water is the third part of a trilogy by Mehta, preceded by Fire (1996) and Earth (1998). Water is set in 1938, when India was still under the colonial rule of the British. Following Hindu tradition, the marriage of young girls to older men was commonplace in parts of India. When a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widow's ashram, an institution for widows to make amends for the sins from her previous life that supposedly caused her husband's death.

Water

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:56:37 -0500

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 the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Water

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:54:32 -0500

Water

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:15:12 -0500

Set in 1938 colonial India against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, WATER tells the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence.