Water

MPA Rating: for mature thematic material involving sexual situations, and for brief drug use.

Relevant Issues

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Featuring
Seema Biswas, John Abraham, John Abraham, Lisa Ray, Rishma Malik
Director
Deepa Mehta
Producer
Ajay Virmani, Mark Burton, Douglas Mankoff
Distributor
Fox Searchlight Pictures, a sister company of 20th Century Fox, a division of The Walt Disney Company

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, ‘Water’ begins when 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence deeply affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society’s prejudices, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.

Extremist groups waged a campaign of death threats, arson and riots to stop the production of this controversial film, but director Deepa Mehta would not be silenced.”