Deepa Mehta
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Deepa Mehta (India, 1950) moved to Toronto in 1973
but only two decades later she became a full-fledged filmmaker directing
Sam & Me (1991) and Camilla (1994).
She rose to prominence with a trilogy started by the
sexually-charged Fire (1996) in English,
and followed by
Prithvi/ Earth (1998) in Hindi, adapted from
Bapsi Sidhwa's 1988 novel "Ice Candy Man",
which looks at the historical event of India's partition (and related massacres) through the eyes of a rich Parsi girl,
and Jal/ Water (2005) also in Hindi, perhaps the best of the three.
However, she mostly devoted herself to conventional fare in English:
Bollywood/Hollywood (2002),
The Republic of Love (2003),
and Heaven on Earth (2008).
Midnight's Children (2012) is an adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel. Mostly Sunny (2016) is a biopic. Anatomy of Violence (2016) is about a real gang-rape that shook India in 2012. Funny Boy (2020) is an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel.
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