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Water In The Class Analysis
As part of my Theology course (South Asian religions and cultures), I got an opportunity to watch a film called “Water’ in the class. I was my first experience to watch a movie in the classroom. The story of the film is based on the life of widows in the colonial period.
During the colonial period, there were child marriages prevailed in India, and the widows were seen as untouchables in the society. Widows in that period was send to a rescue home, where they had to lead a life by worshipping God and without any interaction with the world outside. In this film, Chuyia an eight-year-old girl widow was send to the rescue home. The story of the film is build up on this girl. The rescue home consists of several other aged widows. Other main characters


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