Water

Next time it's cold and rainy outside, go and watch this movie. It manages to melt a banyan tree, a bamboo flute, a black baby dog, quotations from Sanskrit poetry and lots of white cotton saris into one big beautiful picture - while all the time it is really shockingly realistic. Being a widow in a traditional Hindu society is just as ugly as "Water" makes it appear. And M. K. Gandhi's political activity did chiefly consist of appearances of just the kind you see towards the end of the movie...
Some nutcases think this movie attacks Hinduism. It does not; it doesn't even make fun of Gandhi, though that is quite the vogue in India now. All it condemns is stupidity and inhuman behaviour. - And the little girl you can see in the picture is certainly a most stunning actress - she alone is worth the way to the cinema!
Water plays a great many roles in "Water". You can use it to wash fleas off a puppy. You wet someone's hair with water in order to shave their head. You can use fetching water from the river as an excuse to meet your beloved. Rain is water, and so are rainclouds - even when they occur in classical poems. You cross the water of the river for a number of purposes. Even when the male protagonist's brother, the "brown Englishman" who has embraced Western culture and whisky, mangles a German song at his piano, it is Ich hört' ein Bächlein rauschen wohl aus dem Felsengrund ("I heard a brook a-gushing amid the rocky grounds"). Dead bodies go into the water of the Ganges. So do living bodies, and sometimes they do not return.
And then there is the tear in the spectator's eye.