“We never talk to our families. We are our family.” IndiaLeft: A widow’s belongings surround her in a Varanasi ashram that for generations has taken in women from Nepal. Usually run by ...

Water, set in 1938, was about the lives of widows in Varanasi. The final installment of Deepa Mehta's Elements trilogy (after Fire and 1947: Earth). The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto ...

The film, the final installment of Mehta’s Elements trilogy, told the story of the widows in Varanasi in 1938. The film was originally set to be made with Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das and Akshay Kumar.