Water...) is a 1981 Indian Tamil language political drama film written and directed by K. Balachander, starring Saritha, Shunmugham, A. K. Veeraswami and Radha Ravi.

[2] When a remote village, Athipatti in Madurai district faces severe water shortages, the inhabitants adopt all possible means to bring their problem to the attention of the authorities.

A convict Vellaiswamy wanted for the murder of a local landlord turns the villagers' plight to his advantage and begins a co-operative scheme to transport water in a cart from a spring ten miles away with help of Vathiyar.

The final scene mocks bureaucracy by showing pictures of government sponsored meetings for water resource improvement.

[5] P. S. Vaidyanathan of India Today in his review praised the film citing "With his masterly touch, Balachander makes every scene throb with life – life as it is lived in the raw in India's poverty-stricken villages.

And that's what elevates the film far above the general run-of-the-mill movies and the director's own acclaimed previous efforts and converts it into a bold, thought-provoking classic.

[8] Saritha supposedly lost the National Film Award for Best Actress to Rekha (for Umrao Jaan) that year by a narrow margin.