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Water (2005 Film)
''Water'' (Hindi language, Hindi: जल) is a 2005 Drama (film and television), drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap. It is set in 1938 and explores the lives of widows at an ashram in Varanasi, India. The film is also the third and final installment of Mehta's ''Elements trilogy''. It was preceded by ''Fire (1996 film), Fire'' (1996) and ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998). Author Bapsi Sidhwa wrote the 2006 novel based upon the film, ''Water (novel), Water: A Novel'', published by Milkweed Press. Sidhwa's earlier novel, ''Cracking India'' was the basis for ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'', the second film in the trilogy. ''Water'' is a dark introspect into the tales of rural Indian widows in the 1940s and covers controversial and subjects such as child marriage, misogyny and ostracism. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, (; born 1 January 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2005). ''Earth'' was submitted by List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Water'' was Canada's official entry for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film ''A Bullet in the Head (1990 film), A Bullet to the Head'' and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature ''Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner''. She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton (Canadian producer), David Hamilton in 1996. She was awarded a Genie Award in 2003 for the scr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Varanasi
Varanasi (; ; also Banaras or Benares (; ), and Kashi.) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world. * * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of Muslim artisanship that underpins its religious tourism. * * * * * Located in the middle-Ganges valley in the southeastern part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi lies on the left bank of the river. It is to the southeast of India's capital New Delhi and to the east of the state capital, Lucknow. It lies downstream of Allahabad (officially Prayagraj), where the confluence with the Yamuna river is another major Hindu pilgrimage site. Varanasi is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Kashi, its ancient name, was associated with a kingdom of the same name of 2,500 years ago. The Lion capital of Ashoka at nearby Sarnath has been interpreted to be a commemoration of the Buddha's first sermon there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forgotten Woman
''The Forgotten Woman'' is a 2008 Canadian documentary film directed by Dilip Mehta and written by Deepa Mehta. The film is about widows in India and was inspired by Deepa Mehta's 2005 Academy Award-nominated film on the same subject, ''Water''. Cast * V. Mohini Giri as Self * Aishwarya Mukherjee as Self * Ginny Shrivastava as Self * Indira Jaisingh as Self * Usha Rai as Self Synopsis The film The Forgotten Woman was shot in direct response to this interest and aims to increase awareness of the plight and marginalization of many of the millions of widows living in India today who are compelled by long-standing customs to spend their final years alone and shunned by the larger community. The movie examines how these widows, who were forced by their family to give up their belongings, ended up being social outcasts. The Forgotten Woman seeks to raise awareness of the various and pervasive challenges that still surround women's pursuit of economic independence in the 21st cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilip Mehta
Dilip Mehta (born 1952 in New Delhi) is an Indian-born Canadian photojournalist and director. Mehta divides his time between New York City, Delhi and Toronto. His work as a photojournalist has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Newsweek'', ''National Geographic'' and ''Time''. Mehta's five-year coverage of The Bhopal gas tragedy won him numerous prizes including the World Press award and Overseas Press award. His directorial film debut ''The Forgotten Woman'' was inspired by his work on the set of ''Water''. He directed ''Cooking with Stella'' (2009) and co-wrote the script with his sister Deepa Mehta. His 2016 documentary '' Mostly Sunny'' is a profile of Bollywood actress and former pornographic star Sunny Leone Karenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone (), is a Canadian-American model and actress in the American and Indian film industries. She is a former pornographic actress. She was born in Canada to an Indian S .... Filmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sukhwinder Singh
Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs. He is famous internationally for singing " Jai Ho" from the film ''Slumdog Millionaire'' which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. One of his most famous songs is "Chaiyya Chaiyya" from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film '' Dil Se..'', was composed by A. R. Rahman, written by Gulzar, and sung in duet with Sapna Awasthi. Early life and career Sukhwinder Singh hails from hathi gate in bhatti family Amritsar, Punjab. He released a Punjabi album called ''Munda Southhall Da'' with T. Singh, joined Laxmikant–Pyarelal’s troupe, and quickly became a music arranger before heading to South India to look for work, wherein, he sang for the Tamil film ''Ratchagan''. Singh got his first Bollywood break with the song "Aaja Sanam" in the film named '' Khilaaf''. But h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinay Pathak
Vinay Pathak (born 12 July 1968) is an Indian theater and film actor. He has starred in many films including ''Khosla Ka Ghosla,'' '' Bheja Fry,'' ''Island City'' and ''Johnny Gaddaar'' and had a supporting role in movies like ''Jism'', ''Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, and ''My Name is Khan.'' Early life Pathak was born in Bhojpur district, Bihar, India.Mr. Pathak spends childhood early day in Dhanbad as his father was posted in police department. He attended the boarding school Vikas Vidyalaya, Ranchi until 1982. After graduating from Allahabad University he moved to United States for higher studies. Perhaps chief among his mentors in his BFA program Stony Brook University was Farley Richmond, who also urged him to return to India and Hindi theater and film in 1995. Career While studying at State University of New York at Stony Brook Pathak had many acting roles, notably in the comedies ''Khosla Ka Ghosla'' and '' Bheja Fry''. In 1999, he played the role of Vinny in the television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raghuvir Yadav
Raghubir Yadav is an Indian actor, music composer, singer and set designer who works in Hindi films. He made his film debut with ''Massey Sahib'' (1985), in which he played the title role. He has won two International Awards as Best Actor for ''Massey Sahib'', FIPRESCI Critic's Award, Venice Film Festival, 1986 and the IFFI Best Actor Award (Male): Silver Peacock Award at the 11th International Film Festival of India, 1987. The film also featured writer and social activist in National School of Drama, New Delhi until 1977. Career Theatre Yadav has performed as an actor and singer in over 70 plays and about 2500 shows, travelling in caravans, living in tents and performing on makeshift stages in villages, towns and cities of India with the Parsi Theatre Company (1967–1973). He was with the Rangoli Puppet Theatre, Lucknow (1973–1974), performing with glove puppets. At the National School of Drama Repertory (1977–1986), he acted in about 40 plays in over 2000 shows. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waheeda Rehman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress and dancer. Regarded as one of Hindi cinema's finest actresses, Rehman's accolades include a National Film Awards, National Film Award and three Filmfare Awards. Rehman was honoured with the Padma Shri by Government of India in 1972, later receiving the Padma Bhushan in 2011. She has received significant media coverage across her film career. Rehman made her acting debut with the Telugu film ''Rojulu Marayi'' (1955), and rose to prominence with her collaborations with filmmaker Guru Dutt: the romantic dramas ''Pyaasa'' (1957) and ''Kaagaz Ke Phool'' (1959), the Muslims, Muslim social film ''Chaudhvin Ka Chand'' (1960) and the romantic drama ''Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam'' (1962). Rehman had her breakthrough with the romantic drama Guide (film), ''Guide'' (1965), for which she received widespread critical acclaim and received the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She won the award again for her performance in the romantic thril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (born 21 October 1944) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is best known for his role as the antagonist Shakaal in '' Shaan'' (1980), Starting off with the Delhi-based theatre group 'Yatrik' in the 1960s, he moved to films with Sai Paranjpye's '' Jadu Ka Shankh'' in 1974. He worked in several parallel cinema films before working in the mainstream Hindi film industry. He appeared in Mahesh Bhatt's classic ''Arth'' (1982), ''Ek Chadar Maili Si'' (1986), '' Waaris'' (1988), and in all three parts of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy: ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth'' (1998), and ''Water'' (2005). After nearly two decades he was seen on the theatre stage at the Padatik Theatre in Kolkata in the production of ''Atmakatha'', directed by Vinay Sharma. Personal life Kharbanda is married to Maheshwari, a woman who was previously married to the Maharaja of Kotah. Born the daughter of Maharaja Ram Singh II of Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, Maheshwari married Kha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cracking India
''Cracking India'', (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as ''Ice Candy Man'', 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa. Summary Setting: Lahore Time: 1943 - 1948 This novel is generally referred to as a story about the Partition of India – hence the title – but its original title was “Ice-Candy-Man” which allows for broader interpretation of the story. The plot involves Lenny, a 4-year-old Parsee girl who recounts her childhood memories after she is struck by polio in her infancy. She spends most of her time with her ayah Shanta, an 18-year-old Hindu girl from Amritsar. Their relationship is the main narrative because Lenny spends a lot of time with her Ayah and she learns a lot about adult relationships from being with the voluptuous nanny and her very diverse group of admirers. Sexual awakening is a major theme of the book but so is communal identity as the story takes place between 1943 and 1948 when India gained independence but was split into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Novel
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa ( ur, بیپسی سدھوا; born 11 August 1938) is a Pakistani novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is a resident in the United States. She is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel '' Ice Candy Man'' which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film ''Earth'' as well as the 2006 novel '' Water: A Novel'' on which Mehta's 2005 film ''Water is based.'' A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" is currently in production and is expected to release in 2021. Background Sidhwa was born to Parsi Zoroastrian parents Peshotan and Tehmina Bhandara in Karachi, Bombay Presidency, and later moved with her family to Lahore, Punjab Province. She was two years old when she contracted polio (which has affected her throughout her life) and nine in 1947 at the time of Partition (facts which would shape the character Lenny in her novel '' Crac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
