Water: starring Lisa Ray and John Abraham

[dangermousie]

My most anticipated Indian movie of the year (and one of my most anticipated movies of the year, period) is Deepa Mehta's Water. It is the last part of her trilogy about India (the first was Fire which was a lesbian love story, and the second was Earth, which dealt with the trauma of Partition). Water deals with the plight of widows. It is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in November (even though that is now a bit iffy because there is a lawsuit in India to prevent that from happening. Something to do with copyright, I think).

It stars Lisa Ray as the widow who rebels against the rules and John Abraham as a man who falls in love with her. Seema Biswas and Waheeda Rehman are also in it.

I bring you pictures:

Lisa Ray as Kalyani, the widow who breaks tradition:


Lisa Ray as widow Kalyani and John Abraham as Gandhian idealist Narayan:




Poster:


John Abraham as Narayan (Eyeglasses! Stubble! Intellectual look!):


Kalyani and Narayan:


Kalyani and Narayan again:


Lisa Ray and Deepa Mehta:


Sarala as eight-year-old widow Chuyia, and Dr. Vidula Javalgekvar as octogenarian widow Patiraji:


Sarala as an eight-year-old widow:


Another picture:

Comments

[garnettrees.livejournal.com]

I've seen Fire-- it's one of my all-time favorite films. I didn't know the writer had done two more films on India. Water sounds like it will be amazing. I'll keep my eye out for it. Awesome.
-Meredith

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, Fire was great (and caused huge controversy in India, of course). If you decide to seek out "Earth" it's very worthwhile as well.

And yeah, I hope Water is as good!

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

I've seen Earth and it was too awesome. Aamir did such a good job, even though he was freaky in the ending.

Water looks really cool, looks like Lisa will do a good job! :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Earth was really good AND really disturbing. IMO, Aamir's best performance. I also loved Nandita Das and Rahul Khanna in it.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

All three did a terrific job, that's for sure.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Do you know if this is a historical film? It sounds like it might be and from the clothing it looks a bit like it might be.... Mmmmm, John Abraham. Mmmmm!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's historical. It's set in the 1940s, as far as I am aware.

And yes, indeed, on John Abraham!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I just googled Lisa Ray too and wow, she's really beautiful but in a sort of "real" looking way ... This film's going to be very eye-candy-worthy eh?

I'm going to try & see "The Rising" this weekend - my plans last week were aborted due to forgetting my wallet at home :(

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL at the B&P icon :)

I've only seen Lisa Ray in "Bollywood/Hollywood." The movie itself was eminently forgettable but I remember being struck with her.

I can't wait to see her paired with John Abraham. She has a certain sort of steely fragility (if it makes any sense) which would be a really good match with his usual intelligent cynical romantic (or a bad guy with feelings)thing.

[jonaki.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the wonderful pictures. I am really looking forward to this movie. It is supposed to open at the Toronto Film Festival!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know! I am so excited!