On "Water"

When I looked at the title I thought this movies theme may be portraying the scarcity of water and the repurcurssions of it in the future world.There was a movie getting scripted on the lines, when water turns more expensive to Gold and other Jewellery and people may end up killing for water. May be that one is still in scripting stages meanwhile, this water is all about defining the need of submerging the fake rituals in the flowing water. The movie is so much spell bounding from the very first shot to the last, that it leaves one hooked throughout. Its based on a lives of widows living at Haridwar or Varanasi ghats, and the portayal of the movie seems so close to reality. Its invokes a kind of sadness that the world around us is still not as thoughtful, as it should have been. That inspite of proclaimed moderness of today's world there still stays a part of India, who yet believes in the rotten traditions, taking them as a "scriptured version" of our old vedas/upanishads/ongoing culture. The movie is set up in 1940's era but howsoever less I may have seen of india, I think a part of this movie is still alive in our country today. The characters have acted so well, specially the eight year old girl, who was just adorable. There was one touching dialogue, which was shown as a line dropped by Mahatama Gandhi, when he landed at the ghats just for a breeze to meet people at the station:
"For my whole life I thought God is Truth but now I have realised that Truth itself is God ". If you may get hold of it, try watching it, for this one is worth it. Its only released on DVD in India due to some cultural (how embarassing that we cant eat the truth right in the face) issues which led the film fraternity not to release this movie anywhere but in Canada.