Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta Collaborates With Freida Pinto On Her Next
After the universally lauded documentary I Am Sirat on the Delhi-based transgender Sirat Teneja, Deepa Mehta has moved on to her next project. This time it is literary fiction. Says Deepa, “I am currently working on a feature film based on Avni Doshi’s novel Burnt Sugar which is set in Pune. I’m thrilled to be working with Freida Pinto, who is attached to star and produce.” Freida Pinto will play Antara in this powerful and disturbing mother-daughter story from the Booker-nominated novelist Avni Doshi. Pinto whose career has been going through a rough patch of late ,wi | Click Here...
Deepa Mehta’s Controversial Water Revisited
Deepa Mehta’ s Water , which was released on 9 March ,2007, belongs to that rare category of films that has the power to re-define the parameters of cinema, to re-align the function and purpose of the medium, and to re-structure the way we, the audience look at the motion -picture experience. It’s no coincidence that Deepa Mehta’s heroine is named Kalyani . Lisa Ray as the tragic but irradiant widow seems to echo Nutan’s Kalyani in Bimal Roy’s Bandini.The tragic grandeur that Water wears on its resplendent sleeve is a quality that sets it apart from other reformi | Click Here...
“It’s a big deal that it’s coming home,” Deepa Mehta On The Release Of Funny Boy In Sri Lanka
Deepa Mehta Is On Cloud 9. After more than a year of its global release her film Funny Boy about a boy growing up gay in Sri Lanka , will open in the country where the lovely film is set. Says Deepa, “I am so thrilled that Funny Boy is going to be released theatrically in Sri Lanka. To be followed as the opening film of the only LGBTQ festival in Colombo. It’s a big deal that it’s coming home, to be seen by the very folk who inspired Shyam Selvadurai’s novel Funny Boy . A novel which explored the nature of prejudice, whether sexual or racial.” She is no | Click Here...
He has set a bar very high for other filmmakers: Deepa Mehta On Satyajit Ray
Like every notable filmmaker from India,Deepa Mehta has been deeply influenced by the cinema of Satyajit Ray. We can see that influence in Deepa’s best work Water where she delineates the human relationship with a tenderness and resolve that ray would recognize. Speaking with infinite warmth on her favourite filmmaker Deepa says, “Satyajit Ray continues to be the most significant filmmaker out of India for many reasons in my opinion.” Which aspect of Ray’s craft does Deepa dig the most? “It’s not only his mastery of story telling, his craft, the per | Click Here...
Review Of Funny Boy: Warmhearted, Funny & Deeply Tragic
Funny Boy Starring Arush Nand,Brandon Ingram,Nimmi Harasgama,Ali Kazmi,Seema Biswas,Agam Darshi ,Ruvin De Silva,Shivantha Wijesinha,Rehan Mudannayake Directed by Deepa Mehta Rating: **** To be gay in the midst of a civil war in conservative Sri Lanka. That is the crux of Deepa Mehta’s latest film, her finest since Water in 2005. I remember having heated arguments with Deepa when she cast Lisa Ray as a widow of Varanasi and John Abraham as a dhoti-clad social reformist in Water. We had a bet. If the casting worked I lost. If it didn’t I won. I lost. | Click Here...
Deepa Mehta Exclusive On Death Of Ranjit Chowdhry
The sudden demise of America-based Indian actor Ranjit Chowdhry who will be remembered for his furiously funny performances in Basu Chatterjee’s Khatta Meetha, Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Khubsoorat, Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala and so many others have shocked all his friends. Ranjit did four films with Deepa Mehta: Sam & Me, Camilla, Fire and Bollywood/Hollywood. She shared a special bond with the actor. Connecting with me from Toronto Deepa Mehta says can’t believe Ranjit is gone. “I have been in shock followed by an immense sadness by the death of Ranjit. We did fou | Click Here...
Netflix’s Leila: Why you should be binge watching it this weekend
Netflix has made its way in the Indian markets quite sometime back and almost instantly, it has gone straight through the hearts of Indian young and brooding minds. Netflix has provided itself with smashing hits after hits that have made us love, cry, smile and rejoice. Netflix India has a new gift ready for us and this time it is a series called Leila and we are certain that the trailer has enthralled many already. And because it is Netflix plus the outstanding actor and performer Huma Qureshi, one really doesn’t need another reason to see this series but we still have a few reaso | Click Here...
My character in Netflix’s Leila has not been explored much as it was described on paper: Vidhi Chitalia
Netflix’s latest original series Leila directed by Deepa Mehta seems to be getting mixed reviews owing to the concept having its own political overtones. Dancer turned actress Vidhi Chitalia who plays the role of the Nanny (Sapna) to the little girl Leila feels that Leila has been a good journey for her, wherein she got to learn a lot. Says Vidhi, “Leila is my first ever break. It was really nice working with International Directors. The kind of professionalism that Deepa Mehta Mam brings to the set cannot be compared to anyone else. There was a lot to learn and explore. A | Click Here...