Posted on 07/09/05
Element of surprise
Sitting at her Toronto kitchen table with her long, dark hair falling loose, director Deepa Mehta talks about her two films, both called Water.The "first Water" was an abortive film about the plight of Hindu widows in 1938, and led to her being burned in effigy and threatened with arrest before it was shut down in her native India five years ago. The "second Water", shot with a different cast and in a new location, is what she calls "my miracle film," which opens the 30th Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow night and was just last week acquired for U.S. distribution by Twentieth Century-Fox.
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