Water (Bilingual) [DVD] - Good

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A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste.A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven.A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal. The Laws of Manu Chapter 5 verse 156-161 Dharamshastras (Sacred Hind texts) Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia’s feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.

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