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Credits
Producer/s:	David Hamilton
Director:	Deepa Mehta
Cast:	John Abraham, Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Raghuvir Yadav, Vinay Pathak and Rishma Malik
Music:	A.R Rahman

Set against the backdrop of Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power in pre-independent India, when the practice of child marriage was still prevalent, young girls were often wed to older men for economic reasons. When the men died, society dictated that the these young widows, who were left behind were farmed out to ashrams in order to live out the remainder of their lives as a curse, a renunciation, atoning for the past sins that resulted in the death of their husbands.

The story of 'Water' is about one such widow - Chuyia (Sarala), who is only eight-years-old at the time of her husband's death. As custom requires, her father sends her to the ashram under the jurisdiction of Madhumati (Manorma), a widow in her mid-70s. During the day, this powerful matriarch sits in the courtyard ordering the other widows around. By night she lies in her room, smoking ganja and listening to gossip from her only friend, eunuch and a pimp Gulabi (Raghuvir Yadav).

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