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Mehta’s Films The film Water (2005) was hard for me to watch. The social status of females that are widows was a heartbreaking, emotional and psychologically damaging. Chuyia, is an 8-year-old child, she does remember getting married, but is woken by her father to say she will be now living in an ashram- a place for widows- these widows are to live here due to her sins being the reason that her husband passed. Madhumati is the ruler of the ashram, she is a fowl woman. Her way of making money is to sell the widows to men for sex. She eventually sells Chuyia to a man stripping all of the innocence, self-esteem and life out of this child. Chuyia finds a friend in ashram Kalyani, a young beautiful girl that is used as a prostitute. Kalyni helps in comforting Chuyia giving her hope and determination. This relationship was Chuyia’s saving grace, I am sure she would have been killed before reaching age 9 due to her defiance and tantrums. Kalyni meets a handsome man Narayan, reformist, liberal Brahmin, a follower of Gandhi. He falls in love with Kalyni and is determined to marry her. When he brings her to his home, she discovers that Narayan’s father is one of her clients. When Narayan confronts his father about sleeping with Kalyni he says “Brahmins can sleep with whomever they want, and the women with whom they sleep are blessed.” (Water 2005) Narayan, is furious and storms off to find Kalyni and tell her he still wants to marry her. Kalyni is found in the water

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