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Water(Movie, 2005)

1h 55min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love
WaterRating: 3.5/5 (with 4848 votes)
Water (Hindi: जल, romanized: Jal) is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap. It is set in 1938 and explores the lives of widows at an ashram in Varanasi, India. The film is also the third and final installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy. It was preceded by Fire (1996) and Earth (1998). Author Bapsi Sidhwa wrote the 2006 novel based upon the film, Water: A Novel, published by Milkweed Press. Sidhwa's earlier novel, Cracking India was the basis for Earth, the second film in the trilogy. Water is a dark introspect into the tales of rural Indian widows in the 1940s and covers controversial subjects such as child marriage, misogyny and ostracism. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was honoured with the Opening Night Gala, and was released across Canada in November of that year. It was first released in India on 9 March 2007. The film stars ()
Part of the Elements Trilogy
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Awards & Nominations for Water

Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

About Water

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.

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Trailer for Water + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

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Additional Information

Production countries: Canada, India
Plays in: India
Original language: Hindi (HI)
Spoken languages: Hindi (HI)
Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 09/08/2005
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"वाटर"
"止水上的浮花"
"祸水"
"Water - Der Fluss des Lebens"
"Voda"
"Víz"
"Mayim"
"아쉬람"
"Vann"
"Woda"
"Água"
"Boда"

3 movies in the Elements Trilogy

1997 Fire
1998 Earth ("1947: Earth")
2005 Water

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Other movies with this title: Water (GB, 1985), Water (BE, 1997), Water (2003), Water (2004), Water (2012), Water (IN, 2013), Water (2015), Water (AU, 2017), Water (US, 2019), Water (UA, 2020), Water (2023)

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