This year’s Oscars had a strong Indian flavour. Deepa Mehta’s “Water” was one among the five nominated in the Best Foreign Language Picture Category. It did not win the coveted trophy: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences perhaps felt that the story of a playwright and his actress-girlfriend who come under police scrutiny in the 1980s East Berlin in Germany’s “The Lives of Others” was better than the theme of the 1930s Indian widows shut inside “widow-houses” and left to beg or prostitute in Canada’s “Water”. Though Mehta’s work was Indian in every sense – from the plot to the actors (John Abraham, Lisa Ray and Seema Biswas) – it was produced with Canadian money. Hence, it was a Canadian entry.
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