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Water (Water)

Directed by: Deepa Mehta
Cast list: Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham
Country: India, Canada
Year: 2005
Genres: Romantic / Drama /
Runtime: 114 min.
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India 1938. The country is ruled by the British, and it is around this time that Mohandas K. Gandhi arrives from Africa. Not yet in her teens, Chuyia is married to a much older and sickly male, who shortly after the marriage, dies. Then Chuyia is left at a "widows' house" where she meets several elderly women, including the head of the house and a gorgeous young woman named Kalyani - all widows. Chuyia does not know that according to Holy Hindu Scriptures she has been destined to live here for the rest of her life, for when a woman's husband dies, she has three options: to marry her husband's younger brother, if his family permits; to kill herself on his funeral pyre; or to live a life of celibacy, discipline, and solitude amongst other widows. Kalyani meets and falls in love with young Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, who wants to marry her, despite his mother's protests.

 



Educational Grades: ##COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA##Secondary school, 14 to 16##COMA##Sixth form college##COMA##Further education##COMA##Further Edu, mature students##COMA##Higher Education##COMA##

Subjects: Religion / Form class (Pastoral care) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / History /

Topics: education in human values / women (and/or violence against women) / sexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, abortion / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / human relations, psychology, sociology / human rights /

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