Cast

Seema Biswas as Shakuntala
Lisa Ray as Kalyani
John Abraham as Narayan
Waheeda Rehman as Bhagavati, Narayan's Mother
Sarala Kariyawasam as Chuyia
Buddhi Wickrama as Baba
Ronica Sajnani as Kunti
Manorama as Madhumati
Rishma Malik as Snehalata
Meera Biswas as Gyanvati
Vidula Javalgekar as Patiraji (auntie)
Daya Alwis as Saduram
Raghuvir Yadav as Gulabi
Vinay Pathak as Rabindra
Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Sadananda
Gerson Da Cunha as Seth Dwarkanath
Mohan Jhangiani as Mahatma Gandhi
Zul Vilani as Mahatma Gandhi (voice)


Crew

Director: Deepa Mehta
Screenplay: Deepa Mehta
Director: Songs: Vikramaditya Motwane
Story: Deepa Mehta
Producer: David Hamilton
Music: Mychael Danna and A. R. Rahman
Cinematography: Giles Nuttgens
Casting:Uma Da Cunha
Editing: Colin Monie
Production Design: Eral Kelly
Art Direction:Sumant Jayakrishnan
Set Decorator: Rumana Hamied
Costume Designer: Dolly Ahluwalia
Assistant Director: Dylan Gray
Choreographer: Vikramaditya Motwane
Associate Producer: Marek Posival
Production Manager: Lylie Almedia
Executive Producers: Mark Burton and Doug Mankoff

Awards

Winner:
2006, Genie Award for Best Actress, Seema Biswas[3]
2006, Genie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Giles Nuttgens
2006, Genie Award for Best Original Score, Mychael Danna
2006, Golden Kinnaree Award at Bangkok International Film Festival for Best Film[4]
2006, The Silver Mirror Award at Festival Films from the South in Oslo (Film fra sør) for Best Film.

Nominated:

2007: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (making it Canada's first non-French Canadian film to receive a nomination in that category).


Water (Hindi: 5>0), 2005, is a Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. It is set in 1938 and explores the lives of widows at an ashram in Varanasi, India. The film is also the third part of a linked trilogy by Mehta, preceded by Fire (1996) and Earth (1998).

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 March 09, 2007.[1]

The film stars Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, and Sarala Kariyawasam in pivotal roles and Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Raghuvir Yadav, and Vinay Pathak in supporting roles. The film's score was composed by Mychael Danna, and songs for the film were composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics by Sukhwinder Singh. Cinematography is by Giles Nuttgens, who has worked with Deepa Mehta on several of her films.

Controversies

Events during production in Varanasi, India

Mehta had originally intended to direct Water in February, 2000, with the actors Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das and Akshay Kumar. Her earlier film, Fire, however, had previously attracted hostility from the conservative Hindu community, which objected to her subject matter and portrayal of conservative households in a negative light. Protestors organized protests and attacks on cinemas that screened that film.

The day before filming of Water was due to begin, the crew was informed that there were complications with their location permits for filming. The following day, they learned that 2,000 protesters had stormed the ghats, destroying and burning the main film set and throwing the remnants into the Ganges in protest of what ultimately were revealed to be false accusations regarding the subject matter of the film.[2]

The resulting tensions and economic setbacks led to several years of struggle as Mehta was eventually forced to film Water in Sri Lanka, rather than in India.[2] Finally Mehta was able to make the film, but with a new cast and under a false title (River Moon) in 2003. The struggle to make the film was detailed by Mehta's daughter, Devyani Saltzman, in a non-fiction book, Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of the Film.[2]

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