Water
So we lost the game. Fuck. :(
But it seems I made a wise decision when I decided to go see Water after the game ended, since now my thoughts revolve around the movie and not around our team's loss to the Swedes.
Water was a very good film and I'm glad I saw it. It's a fairly sad movie, but the story is not without it's hopeful and even happy moments. The film starts when 7-year-old Chuiya is sent to live in an ashram, a house for widows, after her husband dies. She doesn't really realize what a widow is, and lives in constant hope that some day her mother will come to fetch her back to home.
She befriends Kalyani (Lisa Ray), a young widow whose hair is not shorn like everybody else's, but the viewers soon realize that this is because the older woman ruling the ashram prostitutes her to rich men across the river. One day Kalyani and Chuiya meet a young lawyer called Narayan (John Abraham) by the riverside and Kalyani and Narayan fall in love.
The performances are great throughout, but I think I was most impressed by Seema Biswas who plays a devout widow whose faith gives her strength, but who starts to question her lot in life after everything that happens in the film. John looked great, as always, and did an ok job in the film. The child playing Chuiya was very good and her reactions and feelings felt very true to life. Great film.
But it seems I made a wise decision when I decided to go see Water after the game ended, since now my thoughts revolve around the movie and not around our team's loss to the Swedes.
Water was a very good film and I'm glad I saw it. It's a fairly sad movie, but the story is not without it's hopeful and even happy moments. The film starts when 7-year-old Chuiya is sent to live in an ashram, a house for widows, after her husband dies. She doesn't really realize what a widow is, and lives in constant hope that some day her mother will come to fetch her back to home.
She befriends Kalyani (Lisa Ray), a young widow whose hair is not shorn like everybody else's, but the viewers soon realize that this is because the older woman ruling the ashram prostitutes her to rich men across the river. One day Kalyani and Chuiya meet a young lawyer called Narayan (John Abraham) by the riverside and Kalyani and Narayan fall in love.
The performances are great throughout, but I think I was most impressed by Seema Biswas who plays a devout widow whose faith gives her strength, but who starts to question her lot in life after everything that happens in the film. John looked great, as always, and did an ok job in the film. The child playing Chuiya was very good and her reactions and feelings felt very true to life. Great film.