Water (2005)

Directors

Deepa Mehta

Cast

Deepa Mehta, Dolly Ahluwalia, Gerson da Cunha, Iranganie Serasinghe, John Abraham, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Lisa Ray, Manorama, Mohan Jhangiani, Raghubir Yadav, Sarala Kariyawasam, Seema Biswas, Vinay Pathak, Waheeda Rehman, Zul Vilani

The story

In 1938 India, Chuyia is an eight-year-old girl, whose husband suddenly dies. In keeping with traditions of widowhood, she is dressed in a white sari, her head is shaven and she is left in an ashram, to spend the rest of her life in renunciation. There are fourteen women who live in the dilapidated house, sent there to expiate bad karma, as well as to relieve their families of the financial and emotional burdens of caring for widows.

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