Shooting Water - A Mother-Daughter Journey & the Making of a Film

Author: Devyani SaltzmanNarrator: Deepa MehtaPublisher: PenguinYear: 2006Language: EnglishPages: 256ISBN/UPC (if available): 0144001020 DescriptionSpanning three continents and four countries, Shooting Water is a remarkable story of love and redemption.In February 2000, Devyani Saltzman, daughter of international award-winning film-maker Deepa Mehta, travelled to Benares to work with her mother on Water, the final film of the Elements Trilogy after Fire and Earth. Since her parents’ divorce when she was eleven years old, Devyani had spent her life navigating between two religions, two traditions, two cultures, and two peoplebelonging to both and to neither at once. Water would be mother and daughter’s second chance.But after only a week of shooting, the filmabout the oppression of Hindu widowsbecame the target of a series of politically motivated attacks by Hindu fundamentalists. Protestors destroyed the sets, burned effigies of Deepa, and made threats on her life. Water was shut down.