Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

VividSimon Simply Perfect

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

DeadMan66 Movie is so emotional that you can't hold your tears. It a love story of a widow woman and man from 1938. It lot of social practice were present in back those days in India which people call it culture. I almost cried at the end and didn't went how I was expecting. Main theme of movie is to show how social evil practice were present like child marriage, widow have to live their life miserable. And in the name of culture they were running sex. I don't want to spoil the movie so I'll keep it short. I don't know why this movie is banned in India even after Independence and when all social evil practice are stopped. I think the mind set of people is still not developed on these issues.

drishtiwali Water can be stagnant in a lake or free and flowing as in a river. The movie Water, the last of the trilogy Three Elements, depicts the lives of Indian widows bound by the sacrosanct Hindu customs. It is set in 1938, Banaras when the Hindu widows were given only 3 choices - to die with their husbands, to marry their brother-in-law or to shave their heads and live a life of renunciation. The story starts with the young 8-year old Chuhiya(Sarala) whose over-aged marriage partner's death forces her into the life of a widow. The movie beautifully captures her fears, anxiety and pain as a young widow. A mere child, her expressions move any heart. She is forced to live in an Ashram where she meets Shakutala(Seema Biswas-a devout and strict Hindu), Madhumati(the alcoholic head of the ashram) and Patiraji(her 80 year old roommate whose disappointed eyes touch her deeply). Chuhiya finds hope in Kalyani(Lisa Ray), the only one who keeps her hair long and fights the social stigma to enjoy singing and dancing. Kalyani is regularly made to visit the homes of rich married Hindu gentry to help meet the financial problems of the ashram. An excellent character adaptation, shows her with immense emotional strength bearing the chains put on her by the society to continue to search joy in her life. The movie shows the relationship between a young lawyer and Gandhi follower Narayn(John Abraham) and Kalyani. It puts a strong question to rigid and chauvinistic religious rules which can do terrible damage to innocent lives. The movie was among the top 5 Oscar nominations for best movie. If one is looking for more than entertainment in a movie, it is a great watch.

edwardmbrown This film takes on a tragic theme-- the plight of widows in India. Unfortunately it is so riddled with clichés that, for me at least, it's impact was undermined. An eight year old girl wakes up to be told by her father that she is a widow. She is taken to an ashram to live with a group of mostly old women, also widows. Among them is a young, beautiful and rather European looking widow. There is a love story with a handsome, idealistic man, who is willing to break taboos to marry a widow. Set in 1938 the film tries to portray the conflict with old traditions and modernity. Gandhi even gets a cameo. While Water is beautifully filmed, in the end I felt that I had watched a piece of glossy propaganda, albeit for a good cause.

180696 180696 Water is a movie about widows that don't really try to escape being a widow or get remarried but one woman thought it was right and she should be able to get remarried. I think this movie is trying to tell us that if you truly believe it is right, and try, it can be achieved. This is kind of like living up to your own worldview. One example of someone living up to their worldview is when one widow wanted to get married and all the other widows wanted to stop her because they believed it would curse them. She fought through them and was able to take down the peer pressure because she truly loved that man. Her whole community was against her but she still was able to go for what she believed was right. Chuyia (the little girl) also showed how she tried to fight for her worldview because when she announced that one of the widows were going to get married, one of the older widows said she couldn't. Chuyia started stepping harshly on the older widow which shows how she was standing for what she believed was right. A final example of a widow trying to what she believes is right is when Didi takes the key from the elderly widow who locked up the widow that wanted to get married. She freed the widow so she could get married, but she knew this would make many have no respect for her. Overall many people in this movie did what they truly believed was the right thing to do in their situation, and some went beyond Gods commandments, not sure if God would be okay with it but it was her worldview and she thought it was true.Arc of Movie: This movie talked about a young widow (around 7 years old) being taken to a widow house with many other widows. She meets a widow named Kalyani who meets a man and wants to marry this man. Other widows say if she marries this man she will get cursed. Kalyani commits suicide and another widow doesn't want Chuyia (the little girl) to live with the other widows in their sad life so she gave Chuyia to the handsome man that Kalyani wanted to marry, when he was on a train with Gandhi.