Water (2005)
Water speelt zich af in het koloniale India van 1938, wanneer Mahatma Gandhi aan de macht komt. Het verhaal begint wanneer de achtjarige Chuyia haar man verliest en naar een huis gestuurd wordt waar Hindoe weduwen in gevangenschap de rest van hun leven spenderen. De kleine, vurige Chuyia beïnvloedt het leven van de andere weduwen grondig. Zo ook het leven van Kalyani, een jonge weduwe die verliefd wordt op de idealistische Gandhi-volgeling Narayan.
Regiseur:
Deepa Mehta
Schrijver:
Deepa Mehta
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Lisa Ray as Kalyani |
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Sarala as Chuyia |
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John Abraham as Narayan |
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Seema Biswas as Shakuntala |
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Waheeda Rehman as Bhagavati, Narayan's Mother |
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Vinay Pathak as Rabindra |
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Rishma Malik Scott as Snehalata |
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Manorama as Madhumati |
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Raghubir Yadav as Gulabi |
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Gerson Da Cunha as Seth Dwarkanath |
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Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Sadananda |
| Directing | Deepa Mehta | Director |
| Writing | Deepa Mehta | Screenplay |
| Editing | Colin Monie | Editor |
| Camera | Giles Nuttgens | Director of Photography |
| Art | Sumant Jayakrishnan | Art Direction |
| Art | Rumana Hamied | Set Decoration |
| Art | Lal Harindranath | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Jack Boem | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | David Hamilton | Producer |
| Production | Ajay Virmani | Executive Producer |
| Production | Doug Mankoff | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mark Burton | Executive Producer |
| Production | Dilip Mehta | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Anurag Kashyap | Dialogue |
| Sound | A.R. Rahman | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Mychael Danna | Additional Soundtrack |
| Sound | Andrew Tay | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Steve Baine | Foley |
| Production | Uma Da Cunha | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dolly Ahluwalia | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hermantha Gamage | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Teddy Vidyalankara | Stunt Coordinator |
| Visual Effects | Rebecca Adams | VFX Production Coordinator |