Deepa Mehta's much cherished dream finally comes true as her film WATER gets set to release on March 09 in India, the country from where the story originates.

The film was stopped from being shot in India years back when the original cast read Shabana Azmi, Akshay Kumar and Nandita Das. Third in the trilogy after FIRE and EARTH, WATER was later made with Seema Biswas, John Abraham and Lisa Ray respectively.

Also, the country for the shoot was changed and the film was secretly shot in Sri Lanka under the fake title of FULL MOON to avoid any further controversy that could have hampered the completion of the movie.

The film is set in year 1938, pre-independence India, when the country was under the colonial rule of British. This was the time when child marriage in certain sections of society was a bitter reality as they were married to much older men. And what happened when these men died? Their wives were forced to spend the rest of their lives in 'ashrams' [institutions] meant for widows.

Deepa Mehta takes the story from this point onwards and tells the tale of the woman played by Lisa Ray who falls in love with a Gandhian played by John Abraham.