Water - Oscar

Water as most of you know was nominated in Oscars ‘Best Foreign’ film category. Even though it is a total Desi movie, it was still nominated as a Canadian movie since Deepa Mehta and the producer were citizens of Canada and chose to be that way.

I wouldn’t blame Deepa for doing that because she wouldn’t have had an iota of a chance of getting nominated as an Indian because of all the politics and the perceived ‘anti-Hindu’ elements in the film. Even though I don’t think it’s ‘anti-Hindu’ (Please see http://blog.my-random-thoughts.com/2006/12/widows-in-india.html for my old posting on this issue), it is so sad that she had to represent herself as a Canadian for getting through to Oscars.

There was a beautiful article about ‘Water’ in Times and the whole world appreciated her daring effort despite all the troubles she had to go through. But one of the intent of the movie was to reach those ‘close minded’ people who still adhere to those age old practices and rituals. I am not sure whether the movie actually got through to those people.

What do you think?