| | |  | INDIA & SRI LANKA | Home » » Fire, Earth and Water (Deepa Mehta) (3 Pack) | | | | | | | Description: | | Fire: Banned in India, Fire is the first film to confront lesbianism in a culture adamantly denying such a love could ever exist. Shabana Azmi shines as Radha Kapur in this taboo-breaking portrayal of contemporary India and the hidden desires that threaten to defy traditional expectations. In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy. Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage and into the supple embrace of Radha.
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Earth: Deepa Mehta directs this tale about the 1947 Partition of India. Told through the eyes of an eight-year-old child, it's a story about the violence and hardships which the country endures as war spreads throughout the region. Overcoming citizens of all economic and social classes, the film mirrors contemporay situations such as the conflict in Kosovo.
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Water: Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist. "Deepa Mehta's Water is a magnificent film. The ensemble acting of the women in the widows' hostel is exceptional: intimate, painful, wounded, jaundiced, corrupted, tender, tough. The fluid lyricism of the camera provides an unsettling contrast to the arid difficulties of the characters' lives. The film has serious, challenging things to say about the crushing of women by atrophied religious and social dogmas, but, to its great credit, it tells its story from inside its characters, rounding out the human drama of their lives, and unforgettably touching the heart." | | | Features: | |
• Fire: Widescreen, Language: English, Featurette Examining The Controversy
• Earth: Full Screen, Language: English, French, Trailer
• Water: Widescreen, Language: English, French, Hindi, Deleted Scenes, 2 Disc Set
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12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Careful with copies!!!Sep 19, 2008
By Armando Aburto CAREFUL!!! Make sure this 3 pack movies are the original ones! i ordered recently this 3 movie pack of Deepa Mehta and they turned to by a very bad copies and i paid for them 35 dls! This is not fear! this is not a professional way to sell movies!!
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION!!! don't make the same mistake!
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Absolutely ridiculous!Mar 10, 2010
By Ashley Stillwell This is perhaps the worst service i have ever had through amazon! The copies were horrible, one didnt even play and another was missing subtitles. It took far too long to have them shipped, and they were defective when they finally got to me. I have been trying to fix this over the past 2 and a half months and am now out of an additional $15 worth of shipping because i had to send the package back to india. I lost the tracking number so the seller doesnt believe that i sent it back. 32 emails have passed between us and usually he refers to me as sir and is not very professional. Never buy from this seller!
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Do not purchase. These are poor quality copiesNov 03, 2008
By Roger Barone
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I purchased this set a few years ago. They are poor quality copies. Fortunately, the movies were viewable, so I didn't feel totally ripped.
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