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eye.net - : Water marks a return to relevance for Deepa Mehta after the twin disappointments of Bollywood/Hollywood and Republic of Love. The story, set in the 1930s in the Indian city of Varasani, follows eight-year-old Chuyia (Sarala) as she is sent to live in an ashram -- a convent for widows whose lives are judged to be worthless following the deaths of their husbands. Given its troubled production history, one might expect Water to overflow with righteous indignation, but Mehta, whose connection and belief in the material is powerfully apparent, has shaped her rage into a lucid and moving testament to those forced by religious imperatives into institutionalized suffering. more...
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