Water
Sunday, September 30, 2007 @ 6.10 pm
Cert 12A
After six years in production, undeterred by death threats from Hindu fundamentalists and her sets being burned to the ground, gutsy filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s Water is a subtle study of the mistreatment of widows in pre-independence India. The film centres on Chuya, a seven-year-old widow, dumped in the holy city of Varanasi, and told that she must live the rest of her life in poverty and penance by the banks of the River Ganges. But when Chuya questions her plight, there are consequences for all. Mehta adds depth to her film by setting it against a backdrop of political upheaval, as Gandhi tries to free his country from oppression, and the predicament of widows as an example of hidden social and religious injustice is apt.
Wedi chwe mlynedd yn y broses gynhyrchu, heb ei atal gan fygythiadau oddi wrth ffwndamentalwyr Hindwaidd a’i setiau’n cael eu llosgi i’r llawr, mae ffilm Deepa Mehta yn canolbwyntio ar Chuya, gweddw o saith mlynedd a adawyd yn ninas sanctaidd Varanasi ac sy’n cael gwybod fod yn rhaid iddi fyw gweddill ei bywyd mewn tlodi a gwneud pennyd wrth lannau Afon Ganges. Ond pan fo Chuya yn cwestiynu ei ffawd, mae goblygiadau o bawb. Mae Mehta wedi gosod ei ffilm yn erbyn cefnlen o wrthryfel gwleidyddol wrth i Gandhi geisio ryddhau ei wlad o orthrwm.
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