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Water
Why this pick
A compassionate, socially conscious drama about women constrained by entrenched customs in India, told with the same earnest reformist focus and emotional clarity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Shoba T. Mathur works for the Central Government in India and her job is to create awareness against child-marriage and other social evils that prevail due to general misinterpretation of the Hindu Shastras that demean women, particularly in Dhabri, a village in the state of Rajasthan. She does succeed in recruiting a young housewife, Saanvri, the mother of a young girl, Kamli, and wife of rickshaw driver, Sohan. Saanvri goes around the village raising awareness, and incurs the wrath of the village elders, mostly members of the Gujjar family.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nandita Das
Saanvri
Raghuvir Yadav
Sohan (Saanvri's husband)
Deepti Naval
Shobha Devi
Rahul Khanna
Ravi
Laila Rouass
Amy
Govind Namdev
Dhanraj Meena (MLA)
Ishrat Ali
Purnia Gujjar (sarpanch)
Yashpal Sharma
Sarju