Water
The compelling story in this powerful, fascinating, heartrending third Deepa Mehta film in the Fire, Earth, and Water trilogy follows the horrific plight of a feisty and confused seven-year-old widow (Sarala) in 1938 India as she is painfully torn from her family when they follow the age-old, barbaric, male-serving religious customs and force the frightened child to live in a rundown widow house along the banks of the sacred Ganges River, where she is befriended by two older widows (Lisa Ray and Seema Bisiwas) and an upper caste, idealistic, forward-thinking law student (John Abraham).
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