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WATER: A NOVEL BASED ON THE FILM BY DEEPA MEHTA

Book ID/图书代码: 07500007B12469

English Summary/英文概要: The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta’s controversial film Water to the printed page.
Set in 1938, against the backdrop of Gandhi’s rise to power, Water follows the life of eight-year-old Chuyia, abandoned at a widow’s ashram after the death of her elderly husband. There, she must live in penitence until her death. Unwilling to accept her fate, she becomes a catalyst for change in the widows’s lives. When her friend Kalyani, a beautiful widow-prostitute, falls in love with a young, upper-class Gandhian idealist, the forbidden affair boldly defies Hindu tradition and threatens to undermine the ashram’s delicate balance of power. This riveting look at the lives of widows in colonial India is ultimately a haunting and lyrical story of love, faith, and redemption.

Chinese Summary/中文概要: 《禍水》以三個不同年齡層的女人各自為三條主線:天真無邪的小女孩Chuyia、正值青春年華的少女Kalyani、以及內斂沉穩的中年婦女 Shakuntala,她們同樣是違背人性印度傳統下的受害者,在如鐵牢般堅固的社會框架中完全失去生為人的尊嚴與自由,她們居住的房屋沒有大鎖,可是卻怎麼也無法離開,因為她們沒有辦法脫離「寡婦」的身分。 在蒂帕梅塔的片子裡,Kalyani擁有青春美貌,所以似乎理所當然的受到愛神幸運的特別眷顧,遇見的有志追隨甘地、習法學文之外也會朗頌詩曲的瀟灑青年Narayan,兩人一見鍾情, Narayan以神降臨救贖之姿帶給Kalyani愛情、以及人生的希望,如果王子與灰姑娘從此就要過著幸福快樂的生活,那麼只有蒼老與年紀的其他寡婦們,在這部片裡除了扮演醜陋巫婆之外並沒有太多功用,好在有為的Narayan與其開明的父親終究對女性追求己身價值與自由不會有太大貢獻,知道河對岸心目中幸福宮殿原來是自己被迫賣身的地獄,Kalyani毅然決然回頭,沒法向前進也無路可退,蒂帕梅塔再次安排已死亡做結,讓Kalyani以沐浴之姿、步入聖河自殺,來證明不知道是對誰的清白。 另一個令人心痛的被迫害者Chuyia,在Kalyani離去之後替代了她的工作,失去童貞的Chuyia,在Shakuntala的懷抱裡厭厭一息,不知所措的Shakuntala順著人潮走入了擁擠的車站,看見了在遠處演說的甘地,蒂帕梅塔象徵性的神化了甘地,潔白的光韻以及群眾信仰的面容、眼裡盡是無限的希望,情緒瀕臨邊緣的Shakuntala不顧一切將Chuyia送上火車交給甘地,搭乘的歐洲工業革命下的產物往西方去,這個印度的小女究竟可以到哪裡?在哪裡獲得療傷或重生?同Narayan離去是否可以解決印度根深蒂固問題?背棄背離難道真的唯一的出路嗎? 《禍水》結尾Shakuntala茫然空洞站在月台時的表情,不知是再思考這些問題,還是想著該回到寡婦居所或是就此步入聖河中?

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About the Author/作者介绍: Bapsi Sidhwa 國際知名巴基斯坦祆教後裔作家,自傳性小說《分裂印度》(Cracking India,又名Ice-Candy Man) 改編成電影《大地》(Earth),為 Deepa Mehta (1950-)「元素三部曲」之第二部 (1998),第一部是《慾火》(Fire, 1995)、第三部即《禍水》(Water, 2005)。

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