I believe the director of Water (2005), Deepa Mehta, unintentionally used the myth of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale version of The Little Mermaid (1836) to add a western myth influence to the Indian Bollywood movie of Water (2005) . This is because by incorporating the myth of The Little Mermaid (1836) into the Indian Bollywood film of Water (2005) it would connect the film towards the western audience viewers of this film. In addition, the movie Water(2005) was filmed in Canada; which is a country of western values. This was due to how the movie shows Hindu society in India and the unjust traditional treatment of women widows. This caused the film to have a lot of controversy in India. The controversy was so much that it caused the film set to be vandalized and burned multiple times while Deepa Mehta was filming Water (2005) in India.Therefore, the move of the filming set to the western valued country of Canada could have made an impact on the director's use of myth within the film. This is because it was used to convey the film towards a western viewing audience due to Water (2005) being a banned and controversial film in India. In addition the use of The Little Mermaid (1836) myth in Water (2005) could be used as a strategy to add to the film's story line theme of unobtainable young love. This is because each of the female characters The Little Mermaid and the young widow Kalyani both love male characters who are unobtainable to them. The theme of unobtainable love being used within a film's story line is common among various cultures and thus it was a great strategy for Deepa Mehta to use for Water (2005) since it was an international foreign film.
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