White Rainbow (2005)

Directed by

Dharan Mandrayar

Genre

drama

Country

India

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows four widows living in Vrindavan, India. These women lost their husbands to illness and are expected to wear white and wait for the afterlife. Some were forced out of their homes for refusing to remarry.

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What happens

White Rainbow (also known as Shwet) is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Dharan Mandrayar and starring Sonali Kulkarni, Amardeep Jha, Shameem Shaikh, and Amruta Subhash. The film is about the widows of Vrindavan: women who are married off at a young age, lost their husbands due to illness and wear white waiting to return with them in the afterlife. Several of these women are forced out of their house since they rejected a second marriage. The film follows four different widows. In 2013, Linda Mandrayar founded The White Rainbow Project that helps the widows of Vrindavan make handcrafted clothing and accessories from recycled saris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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