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To: JPR who wrote (10759)	2/21/2000 9:22:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

There is nothing more reassuring than seeing yet another instance of thugs in India taking the law into their own hands. And it is sorta nice to see the tinderbox that is India moving further in the direction that I have predicted it is fated to go.

To: JPR who wrote (10759)	2/27/2000 1:01:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Water' will be shot in West Bengal By Krittivas Mukherjee, India Abroad News Service Calcutta, Feb. 27 -- Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta has almost made up her mind to shoot her controversial film "Water" in West Bengal because the state not only offers suitable locations but also is politically stable and "culturally tolerant." Before leaving Calcutta on Saturday, Mehta indicated that she would announce definite plans this week on which "ghat" or bank along the river Ganges in West Bengal her film would be shot. "If everything goes well, the shooting will start early October," she said. Mehta has liberally certified to people close to her about the suitability of the river banks in Calcutta and neighboring Barrackpore as "ideal" locations, though the final seal of approval would come only after a green signal from technicians. The controversial director of "Fire" and "Earth-1947" will again visit Calcutta in mid-March to give final touches to her shooting program. Sources close to Mehta said what prompted the director to select leftist-ruled West Bengal as the most suitable place after Varanasi, the Hindu holy town in Uttar Pradesh, was that it was the "safest" in terms of political stability and for the unstinted support its intelligentsia had lent her. "This has given me a lot of confidence," she told them. Though, tentatively, it has been decided that shooting will take place on a number of "ghats" in and around Calcutta, most of the shots are likely to be taken at the Jagannath Ghat in Howrah town. The West Bengal government had on Friday handed over formal permission to Mehta to shoot "Water" in the state. The film on the destitute Hindu widows of Varanasi was to be shot in the town, but opposition from right-wing Hindu groups prevented it. The groups say the film's story denigrates Hindus. On Friday, Mehta went around the city riverside and adjacent Barrackpore to choose locations for the film. Apart from Jagannath Ghat, Mehta also apparently showed interest in Shib Ghat and Gandhi Ghat in Barrackpore. Asked how she rated the sites, she said, "It's wonderful." Mehta has already lost Rs. 20 million ($465,116) on the film without shooting a single scene because of the agitation and vandalization of the sets in Varanasi. She has said she does not want to delay the project any further. According to state information department sources, Mehta had said she would make up her mind and announce the location sites this week. Some of Mehta's crew members, including production designer Aradhana Seth, were also here. indiaabroadonline.com