Tag: deepa mehta
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Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy rejected for Oscar nomination
Funny Boy rejected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on the grounds that it doesn’t have enough of dialogue in Tamil and Sinhala languages The Canadian Bazaar TORONTO: Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy has been rejected for Oscar nomination in the best International Feature Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards . The Indo-Canadian…
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Deepa Mehta honoured with star on Canada’s Walk of Fame
The Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta finally gets her due as she is honoured with a star in Canada’s Walk of Fame TORONTO: Canada’s Walk of Fame (CWOF) recently rolled out the red carpet for 2016 inductees at the Allstream Centre in downtown Toronto. Among this year’s inductees were internationally well-known filmmaker Deepa Mehta, fashion icon,…
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Randeep Hooda plays gangster Bindy Johal in Deepa Mehta’s Beeba Boys
By Subhash K Jha MUMBAI: The prolific Deepa Mehta has done it again. Made a film that is likely to provoke extreme responses. In the year 2000 Deepa Mehta had started Water in Varanasi which had to be stalled when religious fundamentalists objected to the film.Deepa’s Fire and Midnight’s Children were also controversial works of…
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Deepa Mehta’s brother plans film on Sunny Leone
News East West MUMBAI: Will Deepa Mehta make a film on the real life story of Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone who entered Bollywood with Mahesh Bhatt’s Jism 2? According to a report in the Times of India, Sunny Leone has been approached by Deepa Mehta’s photo-journalist brother Dilip Mehta with a proposal to make…