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May 21, 2019 · Deepa Mehta is an Indo – Canadian film maker best known for her Elements Trilogy, ‘Fire’, ‘Earth’ and ‘Water’. The storyline of Fire (1996) revolves around the life of two married women ignored and snubbed by their husbands who fall in love with each other. Earth (1998) cornerstones testing time and tolerance between Hindu, Muslim ...
Description by Wikipedia. Fire (Hindi: Phāyar फायर) is a 1996 Indian-Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005). The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 ...
Dec 18, 2019 · Deepa Mehta’s Fire is a rare Bollywood film that puts forth the discussion about one of the secrets of the contemporary Indian society: the sexual orientation of its subjects, with a prime focus on women, a community that faces severe marginalisation and oppression in a patriarchal societal structure. It is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai’s ...
Sep 10, 2023 · Deepa Mehta returns to TIFF with “I Am Sirat,” an intimate film about the trans experience, created in collaboration with Sirat Taneja. Janick Laurent “In reality,” said Mehta, “I feel ...
Tags: Deepa Mehta, Film Review. Reminiscent of a classic Bollywood film, Deepa Mehta’s Fire begins in a field of mustard flowers. But this movie is not the traditional feel-good Hindi film — no, Fire puts forth one of the best well-kept secrets of contemporary Indian love — sexual orientation.
Deepa Mehta is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. She is famous for her trilogy work about Indian society: Earth (1998), Water (2005), and Fire (1996). She was awarded the Genie Award in 2003 for the screenplay and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for lifetime artistic achievement in 2012. Her movies are known for their ...
Deepa Mehta directed (Cracking) Earth, taken from Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel, fifty years after the partition of India. Earth is extremely contemporaneous, as it explores several relevant and pressing themes: the way in which violence is internalized; the extraordinary power of maps (interior and psychological, particularly) – the way that they ...
