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Seven years ago, Varanasi (the holy city of India), witnessed a mob trying to rule the city with angry protests and burning the effigies of a filmmaker. This was none other than a woman who had already made first two films of her trilogy — ‘Fire’ and ‘Earth’. She had a plan to make the final of this trilogy ‘Water’ in the city situated on the banks of Ganga. But, she was made to quit not only Varanasi, but the country. Her fault was that she wanted to depict social exploitation of widows in Indian society. Though there are still plenty of such kinds of women on the streets of Varanasi and Mathura, she played safe and set her story in the pre-Independence era. The director was Deepa Mehta, for whom the whole country lobbied to get the Oscar award for the Best film under foreign language film category recently, though her film was not an entry from India but Canada!

 

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