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Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Deepa Mehta is a transnational artist and a screenwriter, director, and producer whose work has been called "courageous", "provocative" and "breathtaking". Her visually lush and emotionally resonating films have played at every major international film festival; receiving numerous awards and accolades, and ...
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- Amritsar, Punjab, India
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Born into an Independent India of 1950 in Amritsar, Mehta’s tryst with films began early in life, courtesy her father. A film distributor and theatre owner in Amritsar, Satwinder Mehta introduced his daughter to the world of cinema. His movie hall in itself became a schooling ground for Mehta who would watch films after school. The sheer pleasure o...
But things took a turn for the good with the 1991 film Sam & Me. Mehta’s feature-film directorial debut not only broke the record for the highest-budgeted film directed by a woman in Canada but also won the Honorable Mention in the Camera d’Or category of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. “What should have been a high point in my career was stunted by...
Her next big challenge came in the form of the 1996 film Fire whose screenplay she started to write. Passionate about telling a story of women navigating through India’s sexual politics and patriarchy, Mehta found herself in a fix as no producer was ready to finance a film on lesbians. It was then that her partner David Hamilton stepped in and deci...
Mehta’s style of storytelling has always found an audience as she has often focused on the duality of her national and cultural identity, making her the quintessential transnational filmmaker. And it’s her quest to bring relevant stories to the big screen that has made her a director to reckon with. One such story brought her to novelist Salman Rus...
Mehta, who is known to be a gender activist, joined forces with Jodhpur’s Sambhali Trustin 2017 as their international patron to continue her lifelong commitment to advancing global gender equality. The trust focuses on the the development and empowerment of women and girls in Rajasthan and the 71-year-old is a constant inspiration for the women wh...
Mar 19, 2016 · In the cracks of a nascent heterosexual relationship, Mehta had one of her earliest scenes for Fire. Mehta’s childhood had been spent in a home in Amritsar bustling with aunts and uncles. She moved to Canada, where she still lives, in 1973 with her then husband Paul Saltzman, a filmmaker and producer. Fire drew Mehta back to her family home.
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