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Water

Water (2005)Cast and Crew

Movie"For Five Years, Extremist Groups Waged A Campaign of Death Threats, Arson and Riots To Stop The Production of "Water." But The Filmmakers Were Not To Be Silenced."

Cast

L
Lisa Ray
as Kalyani
S
Sarala
as Chuyia
J
John Abraham
as Narayan
S
Seema Biswas
as Shakuntala
W
Waheeda Rehman
as Bhagavati, Narayan's Mother
V
Vinay Pathak
as Rabindra
R
Rishma Malik Scott
as Snehalata
M
Manorama
as Madhumati
R
Raghubir Yadav
as Gulabi
G
Gerson Da Cunha
as Seth Dwarkanath
K
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
as Sadananda

Crew

D
Deepa Mehta
Screenplay
G
Giles Nuttgens
Director of Photography
D
Deepa Mehta
Director
C
Colin Monie
Editor
R
Rumana Hamied
Set Decoration
L
Lal Harindranath
Set Decoration
S
Sumant Jayakrishnan
Art Direction
A
Ajay Virmani
Executive Producer
D
Dilip Mehta
Associate Producer
J
Jack Boem
Second Assistant Director
A
A. R. Rahman
Original Music Composer
D
Doug Mankoff
Executive Producer
U
Uma Da Cunha
Casting
A
Anurag Kashyap
Dialogue
D
David Hamilton
Producer
H
Hermantha Gamage
Makeup Artist
T
Teddy Vidyalankara
Stunt Coordinator
S
Steve Baine
Foley
D
Dolly Ahluwalia
Costume Design
M
Mark Burton
Executive Producer
A
Andrew Tay
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
M
Mychael Danna
Additional Soundtrack

Elements Trilogy

The Elements trilogy of films by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta deals with controversial issues of social reform on the Indian subcontinent. Fire, the first release in 1996, dealt with issues of arranged marriage and homosexuality in the patriarchal culture of India. Earth, released in 1998, dealt with the religious strife associated with the partition of India and the formation of Pakistan in the mid-20th century. Water, released in 2005, was the most critically successful of the three, and dealt with suicide, misogyny, and the mistreatment of widows in rural India.