In February 2000, Devyani Saltzman, daughter of international award-winning film-maker Deepa Mehta, travelled to Benares to work with her mother on Water, the final film of the Elements Trilogy after Fire and Earth. Since her parents’ divorce when she was eleven years old, Devyani had spent her life navigating between two religions, two traditions, two cultures, and two peoplebelonging to both and to neither at once. Water would be mother and daughter’s ...
