Deepa Metha's another movie called 'Water' portrayed so many issues especially patiarchy. Just like I was able to have a glimpse on Indian society that females had less rights than men to choose what to do with their lives. The movie starts with the 8 year old girl who was unfortunately sent Ashram-where widows lived for the rest of their lives away from the society and family. Chuihya was a 8 years old and she was married to a man that she had never met in her life and all of suddent she got sent to live at Asharam because her husband died of sickness.
In Ashram, widows were forced to shave their heads as a way of refusing secular lives and they had to live like a monk.
Also they had to live minimum without fancy clothes they cant live fancy life and forced to wear white loin cloth.
Chuihya, just like other 8 year old girls want,she wanted to go back to her mother but forced to stay at Ashram.
Kaliyani and Sarala become friends in Ashram
Kaliyani was beatiful and basically chose to prostitute with wealthy 'seths'(merchants). Therefore, she didn't have to shave her hair because of her beauty and allowed her an exception.
I was able to see the stereotypes in these scenes because she able to live a so-called worldy life because of her beauty compared to the ones that were forced to live a sage life like nuns .
One day, Kaliyani fell in love with Narayan, a law student..
In this time period, female widows were totally oppressed. Male widows were able to re-marry and have many more rights according to their customs. They were having much less rights than those of the women who are not widows, they were treated dirty which was not fair for Chuiyah who was only 8 years old who did not even experience the rest of her life including marriage life.
When Narayan's mother found out that his son was dating Kaliyani, a prostitute she got furious after she found out the plan of him getting married to Kaliyani
One day, Kaliyani had to serve Narayan's father while she was prostituting and decides to commit suicide after the separation from Narayan.
The movie portrayed unfairness and tragedy that widows had to accept as their reality was so sad and they were just unfortunate ones who had to be perspected as dirty. Nothing was fair for the widows, and everything that Kaliyani was going though from the socially contructed people looking at her ended up murdering her.
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