Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta, born in Amritsar in 1950, the daughter of a film distributor, studied philosophy at the University of Delhi and made documentaries and educational films for the Indian government. She settled in Toronto in the early seventies with her first husband, a documentary filmmaker, and founded the company Sunrise Films with him. She then made an Indian trilogy that led to cinemas being ransacked in India and to a shoot interrupted by riots, which she finished in secret in Sri Lanka.

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• CinemaSam and MeDeepa Mehta · 1991Cinema