“Water” loses out… :( … But never mind…

Hey all,
    I dont know how many of you have seen the film, but there was this film named “Water” by Deepa Mehta, which was competing for the Oscar race… Heres a report from CNN IBN…

Water loses Oscar, still a ‘triumph’

Los Angeles: Indian-born Canadian director Deepa Mehta’s Water, a film on the plight of Hindu widows in the India of 1930s, lost out to Germany’s The Lives of Others in the Oscar race.

A dazzling first feature from German writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, won the Academy award for the best foreign-language film at a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday.

But as The New York Times said, “Win or lose tomorrow (Sunday) night at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, one contender - Deepa Mehta’s Water, a nominee for best foreign-language film will already have scored its greatest triumph simply by existing.”

In January 2000, rioting Hindu
nationalists in India shut down her sets after she had spent just two
days filming her story of an eight-year-old widow shunned by
traditional society in the holy city of Varanasi, noted a curtain
raiser on the awards.

Asked by local officials to leave, Mehta
began again five years and two films later, this time in neighbouring
Sri Lanka, the daily recalled, describing it as an “Indian film with
roots so deep that it defies borders”.

In the course of this film’s sometimes
harrowing trip to the screen - it took 11 years in all - she weathered
death threats, lawsuits and an unexpected reconciliation with a distant
daughter.

”So an Oscar, if not exactly anticlimactic, would not be the most extraordinary thing to have come Mehta’s way,” the Times said.

Water benefited from a change in
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rules this year that
allows a foreign-language entry to be in a different language from its
country of origin, as long as the “creative talent of that country
exercised artistic control”.

Mehta and producer David Hamilton are
Canadians, and the film qualified as Canada’s official entry. India,
where Mehta was born and lived until 1973, “would never have put me
up”, she said.

Water has been sold in 57 countries
and released in 25, with close to $14 million in worldwide ticket
sales. It is finally scheduled to open theatrically in India on March 9.

Water had survived one preliminary cut and a secondary trim to nine finalists before joining The Lives of Others, Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico), Days of Glory (Algeria), and After the Wedding (Denmark) among the top five nominees.

The Lives of Others, a captivating
and wrenching film depicts with a rigorous, straightforward focus on
the way the Stasi monitored and tried to control speech and even
thought in the German Democratic Republic in 1984.

    Hmmm…. I hadn’t exactly seen the movie, but I had received a blow-by-blow story from one of my friends, a film freak, and it seemed like quite a good movie. I was touched by the way the story ran, and how Mehta strived to finish her movie.

    Tell me what YOU think about the story, the film, and Deepa Mehta’s run for the making…. Adios, until next time :)

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February 26, 2007 | Filed Under General World | Leave a Comment 

The sky from my home…

Hey all,
    I’m in quite a serene mood today, so I’ll just post a picture I took from the roof of my house… It shows the moody sunset, and I have to admit, it WAS a beautiful oppurtunity for a poem(which I’ll post some other day)… Enjoy…

    The sky’s beautiful isnt it? Makes you wonder about the wonders of nature… Makes you wonder about the bounty of God… Makes you wonder about the magic of creation… And evolution…

    Ofcourse, had I been a better photographer, I would have done a better job with my Canon PowerShot A95, but for the time being :D


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February 26, 2007 | Filed Under Emotion,Literature,Philosophy, Travel | Leave a Comment 

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