Water
2006
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Jan 8, 2012 · Deepa Mehta, OC, OOnt, director, producer, screenwriter (born 15 September 1950 in Amritsar, India). Deepa Mehta has received international acclaim for her moving and provocative films, which often explore issues of human rights and social injustice.
Sep 14, 1999 · Canadian-Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta chose the violent political separation between India and Pakistan as the subject for her film “ Earth ,” the second in her trilogy of films set in India....
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 have been distributed around the world.
Jun 12, 2017 · In 2000, Deepa Mehta famously had to cancel the shooting of Water in Varanasi after Hindu nationalists attacked her sets. She eventually filmed the project in secret in Sri Lanka. More than any filmmaker from South Asia, she knows the brunt of censorship and moral policing that awaits transgressing artists.
Mar 19, 2016 · Twenty years later, looking back at what made Deepa Mehta’s Fire such a pathbreaking film and examining its relevance today. Written by Dipanita Nath. Mumbai | March 20, 2016 00:00 IST. Follow Us.
May 9, 2013 · Midnight's Children, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta, is a sweeping big-screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie's great novel of modern Indian history. NPR's Bilal Qureshi talks to the...
Sep 8, 2017 · The Filmmakers. How Deepa Mehta mastered the art of telling stories only an Indo-Canadian could tell. Film critic Radheyan Simonpillai explores fluidity between cultural identities in Mehta's...
