Padmaja Thakore feels Deepa Mehta’s Water does not do justice to its subject:
Linked by kuffir. Join Blogbharti facebook group.The women in ‘Water’ have no desires (except Bua’s hunger for laddoos and Chuhiya’s desire to go home). The only woman (Kalyani) who has any sexual experience is a victim, forced into prostitution. The only man-woman relationship that is not forced (between Kalyani and Narayan) is so romanticized as to make it completely sexless. If the filmmaker sees these widowed women as asexual beings, and the film denies them their sexuality, then the two are doing no better than the society of their time.
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