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April 28th, 2006
(NY, LA, SF)
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta
Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Sarala
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
water.mahiram.com
PG-13 for mature thematic material involving sexual situations, and for brief drug use
114 minutes
$5,529,144 (US total)
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Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from a lower caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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