Deepa Mehta at Tongues on Fire film festival

Canadian film Director Deepa Mehta at Tongues on Fire film festivals opening night at BAFTA
Director talks about her Film Heaven on Earth which got premiered at the festival. She also talks about her new project which is feature version of Midnight's Children with author Salman Rushdie.
Produced by Parag Sankhe
Camera - Zack Lyon
Presenter - Arti Mirwani-Daltry
Editor - Parag Sankhe


Deepa Mehta is one of Canada's most internationally recognized film directors. Deepa's most notable work is the "elements" trilogy, Fire, Earth and Water. Fire (1996), about two love-deprived sisters-in-law who find solace in each other, was the first of the trilogy to elicit public protest. Encompassing lesbianism and challenging the power imbalance between husbands and wives in contemporary India, the film drew both ire and praise. Earth (1998), which was nominated for three Gemini awards, is a love story set among the struggles of diverse friends during India's 1947 partition from Pakistan. Based on Bapsi Sidwa's novel Cracking India, it depicts the division of both country and friendships during the bloody massacres in the largest forced migration in the history of mankind. Not shying away from controversy, Mehta's final instalment in the elements trilogy would be Water (2005), nominated for nine Genie awards and for an Oscar in 2006. The story of socially marginalized widows who are ostracized in conservative parts of India, the film went through a series of delays as violent protesters threatened Mehta's life and destroyed film sets in the holy city of Varanasi, where "widow houses" can still be found. Between making Earth and Water, Mehta filmed the musical comedy Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) and an adaptation of Canadian novelist Carol Shields's The Republic of Love (2003). Deepa's first feature film Sam and Me (1991), about an Indian immigrant who befriends an elderly Jewish man in Toronto, Mehta won an honourable mention at the Cannes Film Festival. Deepa's other works include Camilla (1994), starring Bridget Fonda, and a string of television specials, including The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992) for George Lucas Productions.

Filmography:
Exclusion (2009) Heaven on Earth (2008) Water (2005) The Republic of Love (2004) Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)
Earth (1998) Fire (1996) Camilla (1994) Sam & Me (1991) Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988)

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