Year of Release: 2005
Director: Deepa Mehta
Writers: Deepa Mehta (writer), Anurag Kashyap (dialogue)
Runtime: 117 min

The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Read more

Nominated for Oscar and several other awards (see list)

Bapsi Sidhwa and Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and a few years later, Sidhwa adapted Mehta’s film Water to the printed page upon her request.