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[Shrikant’s Blog] Water : A Must Watch: This is the disturbing India of the Hindu widow, a woman traditionally shunned as bad luck and forced to live in destitution on the edge of society. Her husband’s death is considered her fault, and she has to shave her head, shun hot food and sweets and never remarry.

 [SuicideGirls > News > All] CULTURE: Burning in Effigy for Water: I've also seen Earth, which revolves around a group of friends from different religious backgrounds, and how the Indian Revolution affected their relationships. I've yet to see Fire, but only due to its constant "out" status at my local video shop.

 [Power Is the Ability Not to Have to Please] Burned in effigy: Her 1996 film about a lesbian relationship, "Fire," the first in a trilogy, enraged fundamentalists in India, who burned down movie theaters. Her 1998 film, "Earth," about the 1947 partition of India, caused no controversy, but it did contain scenes of the butchery that occurred between Muslims and Hindus at the time.

[www.browngirlsintoronto.com :: Main Page] Digest # 3 - Small World series, Indo-jazz and a... : Coming up: An uber funky message board for the site, so interaction will be more user-friendly. Coming up: More streamlined member app form (so no word doc required) 3.

 [Bollywood.com] The Bollywood Blog: India among fastest growing markets for IMAX ...: Latest Bollywood and Hollywood News, Star Interviews, Song and Movies Reviews and .The Toronto-based IMAX Corporation and Sathyam Cinemas of India .

[Eye.net] Eye - Bollywood reels them in - 04.25.02: As Bollywood Bound suggests, the movies may hold even more allure within what are called "NRI" (non-resident Indian) communities located far from Bombay. However absurd, Bollywood's all-singing, all-dancing version of India has a profound effect on the children of South Asian immigrants, who feel caught between the more immediate culture of pasty-faced Friends and these idealized images of their ancestral "home." In oh-so-multicultural Canada, the already complex questions about cultural identity faced by young Indo-Canadians get a lot murkier.

[Mblog.lib.umich.edu] Beyond Bollywood: Indian Film Festival: WATER, which opened the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, marks Deepa Mehta's third feature in her elemental trilogy following the acclaimed FIRE and EARTH. Every bit as controversial as Mehta's previous projects, production on WATER was shut down in India in 2000 following violent protests and riots by Fundamentalist Hindus and death threats to Mehta.

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