Deepa Mehta's completion of her "Trilogy of the Elements" (Fire and Earth before it) continues to march back in time -- now 1938 -- to focus, with barely stifled feminist fury, on the ostracism of widows, expected to remain faithful till death to their husbands even if they happen to have been a child bride. Some pretty photography, but soppy, soapy melodramatics -- and the progressive male heartthrob (flute player, poetry quoter, Gandhi follower) is a howl. With Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas, and Sarala. (2006) — Duncan Shepherd
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