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	The Cannes Festival Blog - Oscar-Nominee Deepa Mehta on "Water"
		Deepa Mehta: The reason that I named these films is because these are the elements that nurture us, but yet, they have a capacity to destroy us.
		Deepa Mehta: In India, we live in extended families, where there is a strong relationship between the young and the old.
		Deepa Mehta: What keeps me going, and keeps me passionate, is my curiosity, my desire as a person to always know more, especially in the socio-political arena.
	www.cannes-festival.com /article.php?story=20060628183800468 (2377 words)

	Deepa Mehta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deepa Mehta (born 1950 in Amritsar, India) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter who is based in Toronto.
		Mehta graduated from the University of Delhi with a degree in philosophy before emigrating to Canada in 1973.
		Mehta is battling the accusation that she lifted her script from the novel Sei Samaya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deepa_Mehta (670 words)

	Deepa Mehta - Biography - Moviefone
		One of the most provocative and exciting new directors to make her mark on world cinema at the turn of the millenium, Deepa Mehta is known for her rich, complex explorations of the cultural taboos and tensions at play in the society of her native India.
		Born in India in 1950, Mehta received a degree in philosophy from the University of New Delhi.
		Mehta followed this triumph with Camilla three years later; another story of an unlikely friendship (this time between an unsatisfied young wife (Bridget Fonda) and a free-spirited old lady (Jessica Tandy), it had the primary distinction of being Jessica Tandy's penultimate movie.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/deepa-mehta/192088/biography (419 words)

	Samudaya.org: Deepa Mehta's tale of Indian widows
		Mehta's fault is not in selling off to the rest of the world an oppression of widows that continues to this day in India, but in digging that hole and leaving it shallow: in not exploiting the matter enough while she had her hands dirty.
		Mehta’s case, reserving the rights of non-residents to equally lambaste any other non-resident that look into their own native culture with ‘the bluest eyes’ just so that the wider audience is able to interpret in the language ‘they’ know or the context ‘they’ seem to understand in.
		Mehta has the same right to make whatever movie she pleases-- with the plot and story line of her desire, and the message she wishes to portray-- as any director has the right to make superman or a porn flick.
	samudaya.org /articles/archives/2006/06/deepa_mehtas_ta_1.php (2007 words)

	Water: Deepa Mehta Completes Her “Elements” Trilogy / The Digital Filmmaker /
		Water, the third part of Deepa Mehta’s “Elements” trilogy, premiered at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival after years of disappointment and delay, and is finally being released in the USA this spring.
		But Mehta’s elegant storytelling skills and the powerfully restrained performances of her two lead actresses (Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das) were widely acclaimed in the West, and Fire received numerous film festival awards.
		Mehta is careful to show the unfolding horror through Lenny’s innocent eyes, and told from a child’s perspective the story of this one specific ethnic conflict achieves heart-breaking universality.
	digitalfilmmaker.net /dv/features/water (943 words)

	'Water'--Deepa Mehta movie, India, Hindu -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But Mehta held on to her dream of filming "Water," a tragic tale of Hindu widows living a life of austerity in an ashram by the river Ganges, and of people misusing religion to serve their needs.
		Mehta’s "Water"--the final chapter in her elemental trilogy (the other two films were "Fire" and "Earth") is a deeply moving and a powerful story set in the late-1930s.
		Mehta’s "Water" is a reminder that while India is set to become a nuclear and an economic power, the country still has to tackle with some of its ugly realities.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/189/story_18954_1.html (809 words)

	INTERVIEW: Deepa Mehta's Elements, From "Earth" and Beyond
		Canadian-Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta chose the violent political separation between India and Pakistan as the subject for her film "Earth," the second in her trilogy of films set in India.
		With "Earth," Mehta takes politics to an epic scale, focusing on how the partition of India after independence affects the lives of a few individuals, and in turn, the whole country.
		Mehta: I sit down before, talk to both of them and I use my daughter's crayons to do the color pallet of the film.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Mehta_Deepa_990914.html (757 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Politics of Deepa Mehta's 'Water'
		Deepa Mehta contacted authorities to begin the fight again, but the battle was lost.
		Deepa and her producers are adamant the film will be completed despite losing 80 percent of the original budget.
		Deepa received many messages of support from around the globe, including a fax displaying a copy of a full-page advertisement that George Lucas had placed in Variety in March declaring his full support for Deepa and forfeiting any future work in India.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /28/water.html (2111 words)

	Mehta.html
		Mehta's main point in making films is to challenge blind tradition in India: "It was important to set it [the films] in India because the story is happening there.
		Mehta's other works include a trilogy composed of Fire, which is about the politics of sexuality; Earth, which is about the politics of nationalism; and Water, which is about the politics of religion.
		Mehta used this film as an opportunity to say something about the period because she felt no one really knew about it outside India and Pakistan, but she wanted it told through a neutral perspective (Kirkland 9/11/98).
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Mehta.html (1672 words)

	An interview with Deepa Mehta, director of Earth
		Deepa Mehta began her filmmaking career after she immigrated to Canada in 1973.
		In 1990 Mehta made her feature film debut with Sam and Me, a poignant story set in Canada about a friendship between an Indian immigrant and an elderly Jewish man. The widely-acclaimed film was followed in 1994 by Camilla, starring Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda.
		Deepa Mehta: We all knew that Fire would perhaps be a contentious film in India and so when it went through the censor without one cut we were very heartened.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/aug1999/meh-a06.shtml (2596 words)

	Water Director Deepa Mehta - ComingSoon.net
		Deepa Mehta, the Canadian-Indian filmmaker who created Fire and Earth, completes her elemental trilogy with Water.
		Mehta: Growing up in India you hear about the ashrams or the institutions, and my grandmother was a widow, but she was a matriarch and a tyrant and a very different kind of widow.
		Mehta: The core of (the film) is the conflict between her conscience and her faith.
	comingsoon.net /news/indietopnews.php?id=14214 (2001 words)

	Deepa Mehta - Water
		Almost immediately, you’ll probably notice the inconsistent gaps between the release of Mehta’s films; particularly obvious is the eight years between her second and third instalments to the trilogy.
		Mehta attempted to clarify that her film would not directly attack present Hindu traditions, but her efforts hardly eased the bitter and relentless harassment.
		Mehta capably shifts her focus from the assorted widows to outsiders (religious influences and various plebeians) in an attempt to provide a more rounded understanding of the women’s mindsets and their views towards faith.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews24/water.htm (1374 words)

	Deepa Mehta Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mehta learned as she went, starting as a writer and editor on documentaries (many made in tandem with her then-husband under their production banner Sunrise Films) before stepping behind the camera to make the documentary short "At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch" in 1975.
		Mehta has said she set out to make a film "about the intolerance in class, culture and identity" and she more than succeeded.
		Mehta wrote and directed an intimate epic that demonstrated the horrors of separatism and ethnic cleansing that had a universal resonance.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/198903 (1197 words)

	Interview with director Deepa Mehta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Deepa Mehta is one of the most accomplished and vital directors currently working in India.
		Mehta set off a firestorm of controversy with two of the film in her recent trilogy.
		Some were offended by the on-screen depiction of lesbianism in “Fire” and her uncompromising look at the plight of widows in Indian society in “Water.” At some of the openings of the films, effigies of her were burnt.
	www.artinterviews.com /Deepa_Mehta.html (1738 words)

	Deepa Mehta: Vindicated?
		Delhi-raised Mehta was forced to give up the project about five years ago when Hindu fundamentalists stopped its shooting in Varanasi.
		They were angry that the film, which narrates the plight of widows at an ashram in Varanasi in the 1930s and documents their subsequent rebellion, was being made at all and set in Varanasi.
		Many assumed that Mehta, who had received death threats, had given up the film but she secretly filmed it in Sri Lanka last year.
	in.rediff.com /movies/2005/sep/23deepa.htm (1227 words)

	Deepa Mehta - Images and Biography
		Producer/director/writer Deepa Mehta was raised in New Delhi, India, where cultural and religious beliefs dictate life for the Indian woman.
		Devyani is Mehta's life, and the proud mother says, "Deepa Mehta is a person who loves her daughter madly.
		Mehta began her film career with no formal training, writing screenplays for children's movies.
	www.kevo.com /profile/Deepa_Mehta/1892 (355 words)

	Bollywood North: an interview with Deepa Mehta TAKE ONE - Find Articles
		Although Deepa Mehta's father was a successful film distributor in India, and she grew up watching popular Bombay musicals, her university studies led to a degree in philosophy, not film.
		Mehta proved to be an industrious and talented writer, editor and director of short films and documentaries such as At 99: A Portrait of Lousie Tandy Murch, which won a Canadian Film Award in 1974.
		Take One interviewed Mehta in her Toronto home just as she received the news that her most recent feature, the romantic-comedy Bollywood/Hollywood, had been chosen to open the prestigious Perspective Canada section of the Toronto International Film Festival.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_39_11/ai_92802469 (934 words)

	Deepa Mehta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988) (as Deepa Mehta Saltzman)
		At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch (1975) (as Deepa Mehta Saltzman)
		Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988) (producer) (as Deepa Mehta Saltzman)
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0576548 (273 words)

	Deepa Mehta's Earth
		Director, Producer and Screenwriter of 'Earth' Deepa Mehta was born in India and received a degree in philosophy from the University of New Delhi.
		In 1990, Mehta produced and directed her first feature film 'Sam & Me', the story of two men, both outcasts of sorts, who form a deep and permanent bond despite the fact that neither is welcome in the other's world.
		On how the film 'Earth' came about, Deepa Mehta explains how she became fascinated with Bapsi Sidhwa's book 'Cracking India', set during the catastrophic period that followed Partition in 1947.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/Earth/index.html (1473 words)

	Deepa Mehta - Moviefone
		One of the most provocative and exciting new directors to make her mark on world cinema at the turn of the millenium, Deepa Mehta is known for her...
		Canadian-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta was born in Amritsar, India in 1949.
		Deepa Mehta - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Deepa Mehta Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/deepa-mehta/192088/main (120 words)

	Zeitgeist Films \| Deepa Mehta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Deepa Mehta was born in India and received a degree in philosophy from the University of New Delhi.
		In 1990, Mehta produced and directed her first feature film SAM and ME, the poignant story of an unlikely friendship between two men, both outcasts of sorts, who form a deep and permanent bond despite the fact that neither is welcome in the other’s world.
		EARTH, based on Bapsi Sidhwa’s critically acclaimed novel, CRACKING INDIA, is the second film in Mehta’s trilogy of the elements, Fire, Earth and Water.
	zeitgeistfilms.com /directors/dmehta (414 words)

	SAJA: Deepa Mehta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Deepa Mehta with author Bapsi Sidhwa on the set of "Earth." Bapsi's "Cracking India" is the book on which the movie is based.
		EARTH, is the latest film by Deepa Mehta, who dazzled audiences in 1997 with her taboo busting romance FIRE.
		Director Deepa Mehta seamlessly weaves the various layers of this moving film into a complex whole where societal upheaval and mass violence coexist with the tenderest elements of human experience, manifested in the film's passionate love story.
	www.saja.org /deepamehta.html (692 words)

	SAWNET: Deepa Mehta's Fire creates controversy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Deepa Mehta and other South Asian women film makers on the Sawnet web page.
		Deepa Mehta: "It has caused outrage, love and confusion"Despite its vast output and long history, Indian cinema has rarely ventured into such a realm.
		Director Deepa Mehta aims to be provocative and challenging: "Some people are outraged by it, some people love it and some people are confused by it.
	www.umiacs.umd.edu /users/sawweb/sawnet/news/fire.html (2151 words)

	Amazon.com: Water: DVD: Deepa Mehta,Lisa Ray,John Abraham,Seema Biswas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Deepa Mehta's view is that a misinterpretation of religious texts has perpetuated the dreadful state of widows in Indian culture, which is actually the result of economics.
		The time is 1938, India is in social, political and religious upheaval but director Deepa Mehta uses this as only a backdrop for her very personal and tragic story.
		The DVD is great with a special disk containing interviews with the director Deepa Mehta and her crew.
	www.amazon.com /Water-Deepa-Mehta/dp/B000ETOW5G (2577 words)

	Deepa Mehta plans a comedy
		Deepa Mehta is planning to make a start-to-finish comedy about a wacky ayah who works for a Canadian couple.
		Mehta has already decided the cast, but she doesn't want to reveal the actress' name.
		According to Mehta, she has had some terrible experiences with star tantrums while casting for 'Water', and she hopes the actress whom she has in mind turns out to be professional about her job.
	www.bollyvista.com /article/a/32/6312 (148 words)

	Deepa Mehta and Lisa Ray Talk Water
		But in the case of the new film, Water, director and writer Deepa Mehta came across an enormous problem when it came to where she was shooting.
		It was Deepa's passion and because she wasn't doing it out of vengeance against the people who had stopped her.
		Her passion fired everyone with the film, from the crew to the cast; the cinematography is beautiful and is part of the cast.
	www.movieweb.com /news/73/12373.php (1737 words)

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