Water
Type
Label
Water
Language
hin
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
PG
Main title
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Medium
electronic resource
Responsibility statement
Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Mongrel Media presents in association with Telefilm Canada, Noble Nomad Pictures, Echo Lake Productions ; a David Hamilton production ; a Deepa Mehta film ; produced by David Hamilton ; written and directed by Deepa Mehta
Runtime
115
Sub title
Water /
Summary
A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal. The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred Hind texts). Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
Content
Composer
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Is Based On
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor11
- Genre2
- Subject8
- Content1
- Actor5
- Composer1
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmeditor1
- resource.filmproducer1
- Is Based On1
- resource.screenwriter1