Water - Drenching the Souls



Hats off to Deepa Mehta for coming out with a beautiful narration of the movie "Water". The Screenplay was neatly sketched and dialogues by anurag kashyap was class on its own. Ofcourse, I required sub-titles to follow few intricacies of the dialogues and narration.

The Movie starts with Chuiya (the kid has played really her part well) is sent to house where the Widows are forced to live their rest of the life. The lady of the house played by Manorama, an yesteryear actor, runs the house and forces few girls to "facilitate" the so-called aristocrat "babus" of yesteryears.

Chuiya befriends Kalyani (lisa ray) and Shakuntala (seema biswas, deserves definitely an award for her portrayal). Chuiya initially hesitates to accept the home (the one for destitutes) bt finally accepts the new way of life. In the meanwhile, Kalyani meets Narayan (John Abraham) who has rational thoughts and is moved by ideals of Bapu.

Narayan wants to save Kalyani from the bereft state of life, proposes her for the marriage. Kalyani is optimistic of new lease of life offered to her and but her honeymoon of imagination comes to grinding halt when she comes to know about his father.

The movie ends with Shakuntala trying to save chuiya from the destitute-home and hand over the kid to Narayan to take care the kid.

The movie had lot of open questions, but equally had discussed lot of issues related to illiteracy, widow remarriage, exploitation against women etc. This movie reminded me of the short story "Yuga sandhi" by Jayakanthan which i had very recently.

Th short story deals again with widow re-marriage and how the society had apprehensions to accept it. The narration was crisp and had the stamp of Jayakanthan.

The memorable lines of the Movie - Water was "Do we need to believe in our texts / the law (as the law by 1940's legalised widow remarriage...), though this question was ignorantly asked by seema, that conveyed greater amount of meaning.

Definitely i would recommend that this is worthy enough to watch.

~lakshman

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