Deepa Mehta

Biography

Born 00/00/1949

The two predominant themes in the work of writer-director Deepa Mehta are 1) the transcendence of age differentials and cultural barriers and 2) passion in its various guises. Drawing on her own status as a woman whose identity straddles two disparate worlds, her native India and her adopted...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 1975, received Canadian Film Award for Documentary Under 30 Minutes

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Highlights

In 2005, Helmed the final film in her trilogy, "Water," which is set in the 1930s and focuses upon the difficult lives of a group of widows living in an impoverished ashram (institution for widows); earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film (US release 2006)
In 2000, Attempted to complete her trilogy filming "Water"; project put on hold when shooting was suspended because of local protests in India
In 1998, Co-produced, wrote and directed "Earth", the second film in her trilogy, detailing the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan filtered through the eyes of a crippled Parsee child; based on the semi-autobiographical novel "Cracking India" by Bapsi Sidhwa; film co-starred Aamir Khan, Nandita Das and Rahul Khanna

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Family & Companions

Devyani Saltzman: daughter (born c. 1980)

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