I got to see this film last Saturday. It is strikingly beautiful in images, music, and story. It is set in 1938 in India near the end of British rule as Gandhi is becoming more well-known and influential. The film follows a few different characters while focusing mostly on the women living in an ashram, where widows spend their lives after their husband's death.
The director, Deepa Mehta, also directed films entitled Earth and Fire which I have heard are very good as well. She began filming in 2000, but was disrupted by protests and there was an attempt by the Indian government to shut down production. Finally, three or four years later, production of the film resumed in Sri Lanka.
Her daughter, Devyani Saltzman, wrote a book Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking in which she parallels the journey of making the film with her own journey to re-establish her relationship with her mother.
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