Deepa Mehta Collection - 3-DVD Box Set ( Water / Earth / Fire ) ( River Moon / 1947: Earth (Terre) )

Deepa Mehta Collection - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Water / Earth / Fire
Alternate Title: River Moon / 1947: Earth (Terre)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )
Hindi ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Hindi ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
317 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1996 - 2005 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
India ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Deepa Mehta
Bapsi Sidhwa

Written By:
Anurag Kashyap
Deepa Mehta

Actors:
Sarala ..... Chuyia
Buddhi Wickrama ..... Baba
Rinsly Weerarathne ..... Chuyia's Husband
Iranganie Serasinghe ..... Mother in Law (as Iranganee Serasinghe)
Hermantha Gamage ..... Barber
Ronica Sajnani ..... Kunti
Manorama ..... Madhumati (as Manorma)
Rishma Malik ..... Snehalata
Meera Biswas ..... Gyanvati
Vidula Javalgekar ..... 'Auntie' Patiraji (as Dr. Vidula Javalgekar)
Seema Biswas ..... Shakuntala
Lisa Ray ..... Kalyani
Sanoja Bibile ..... Woman Bather
Dolly Ahluwalia ..... Upset Woman (as Dolly Ahluwalia Tewari)
John Abraham ..... Narayan
Maia Sethna ..... Lenny Sethna
Nandita Das ..... Shanta, the Ayah
Kulbhushan Kharbanda ..... Imam Din
Babby Singh ..... Yousaf
Kitu Gidwani ..... Bunty Sethna
Raghuvir Yadav ..... Hariya / Himmat Ali
Kabir Chowdhury ..... Cousin Adi
Arif Zakaria ..... Rustom Sethna
Eric Peterson ..... Mr. Rogers (IG)
Gulshan Grover ..... Mr. Singh
Lauren Walker ..... Mrs. Rogers
Cinia Jain ..... Mrs. Singh
Rahul Khanna ..... Hassan, the Masseur
Navtej Singh Johar ..... Sher Singh
Pavan Malhotra ..... Butcher
Karishma Jhalani ..... Young Radha
Ramanjeet Kaur ..... Young Radha's mother
Dilip Mehta ..... Young Radha's father
Javed Jaffrey ..... Jatin (as Jaaved Jaaferi)
Nandita Das ..... Sita
Vinay Pathak ..... Guide at Taj Mahal
Kushal Rekhi ..... Biji
Shabana Azmi ..... Radha
Ranjit Chowdhry ..... Mundu
Kulbhushan Kharbanda ..... Ashok
Alice Poon ..... Julie
Ram Gopal Bajaj ..... Swamiji
Ravinder Happy ..... Oily man in video shop
Devyani Saltzman ..... Girl in video shop (as Devyani Mehta Saltzman)
Sunil Chabra ..... Milkman on bicycle (as Sunil Chhabra)

Synopsis:

Water (2005)***WARNING***No English - Germany & Hindi audio with German subtitles
In 1938, Chuyia (Sarala) a child bride whose husband dies before their union is consummated is relegated to life in an ashram in Varanasi (Benares) for other 'unwanted' widows.

Earth (1998)***WARNING***Mix of English & Hindi audio with German subtitles
The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan.

Fire (1996) - English & German audio with German & English subtitles
Aged Biji is a widow, who is unable to walk, talk and look after herself, communicates with a bell, lives with two sons, Ashok and his barren wife, Radha, and Jatin, who is in love with a Chinese-Indian, Julie, and a male servant, Mundu.

Water (2005)
In 1938, Chuyia (Sarala) a child bride whose husband dies before their union is consummated is relegated to life in an ashram in Varanasi (Benares) for other 'unwanted' widows. Their life is ruled over by a venal old woman, Madhumati (Manorama) She pimps the young widows out to wealthy Brahmin gentlemen, whose attentions are considered by society to be a blessing. Another young widow, Kalyani (Lisa Ray) runs away to marry a young lawyer, a devotee of Ghandi (Mohan Jhangiani), until she discovers that his father has been her 'client/benefactor.' She drowns herself in the Ganges, and the young man disowns his father. Chuyia is abused, then rescued and helped to escape by Shakuntala (Rishma Malik), another of the widows.

Earth (1998)
The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of this group and the maddening religious that sweeps even this city as the partition of the two countries is decided and Lahore is given to Pakistan.

Fire (1996)
Aged Biji is a widow, who is unable to walk, talk and look after herself, communicates with a bell, lives with two sons, Ashok and his barren wife, Radha, and Jatin, who is in love with a Chinese-Indian, Julie, and a male servant, Mundu. When Julie refuses to marry him as she dislikes joint family life, he is more or less brow-beaten to marry Sita so that she bear a male child to carry on the family name. Ashok has given up on marriage and is now leading a celibate life, has become a follower of a religious leader, Swamiji, and spends all his free time with him. Jatin has not given up on Julie and continues to meet her in his free time. Thus Radha and Sita are left alone most of the time. While Ashok, Radha and Sita run a take-out Punjabi food business, Jatin runs a video store where he rents out porno movies also on the sly. Mundu passes his free time watching some of these porno movies and masturbating, much to Biji's dislike. Then one day Radha surprises Mundu and tells Ashok to fire him. But Mundu knows Radha's secret - a secret that if revealed, will tear the lives of the entire family apart.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.