Deepa Mehta

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Deepa Mehta

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Place of Birth

: Amritsar

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Biography : Mehta attended Welham Girls High School and graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in philosophy before immigrating to Canada in 1973. She embarked on her film career as a screenwriter for children's films. In 1991 she made her feature-film directorial debut with Sam & Me (starring Om Puri), a story of the relationship between a young Indian boy and an elderly Jewish gentleman in the Toronto neighbourhood of Parkdale. It won First Honorable Mention in the Camera d'Or category of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Mehta followed up with Camilla starring Bridget Fonda and Jessica Tandy in 1994. Deepa Mehta is currently preparing a film entitled Exclusion, which is rumored to star Amitabh Bachchan and John Abraham. The plot is based on the Komagata Maru incident that occurred in Canada.

Filmography : Sam & Me (1991) Camilla (1994) Fire (1996) Earth (1998) Bollywood/Hollywood (2002) Republic of Love (2003) Water (2005) Heaven on Earth (2008) Luna (2008) Exclusion (2009)

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