Latest Deepa Mehta News



Does Mehta's 'Midnight's Children' Prove The Novel Is Unfilmmable?

10th May 2013

The movie adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children, directed by Deepa Mehta, hit theaters in the U.S. on the back...

Mehta Defends Film Role

17th April 2007

Canadian filmmaker DEEPA MEHTA has denied he stole the credit for Oscar-nominated film WATER from his "dear friend" ANURAG KASHYAP....

Mehta's Water Fails To Make Splash

28th March 2007

Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's Water, which was nominated for a foreign-language Oscar this year, has failed to attract an audience...

Indian Supermodel, Actress Portrays Lesbian

19th March 2007

A top Bollywood actress has touched off controversy in India following word that she will play a lesbian in her...

Mehta To Make Film On Korean Princess

23rd August 2006

WATER director DEEPA MEHTA is set to make THE JULIA PROJECT, a biopic about an American interior designer who married...

Mehta: 'Was It Worth It?'

19th May 2006

Indian director DEEPA MEHTA experienced so many problems making her award-winning movie WATER, she wonders whether it was worth the...

Mehta Tackles Another Hard-hitting Subject

3rd April 2006

Indian director DEEPA MEHTA, whose film WATER - about the plight of widows in colonial India - won best film...

Genie Awards Go Crazy

14th March 2006

French-Canadian gay drama C.R.A.Z.Y. was the big winner at the 26th Annual Genie Awards in Toronto, Canada, last night (13MAR06),...

Huffman And Lady Vengeance Triumph At Bangkok Festival

3rd March 2006

FELICITY HUFFMAN, CHAN-WOON PARK and DAVID LaCHAPELLE were among the winners at the Bangkok International Film Festival in the Thai...

Water To Open Canadian Film Festival

29th June 2005

DEEPA MEHTA's controversial Indian movie WATER will open the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September (05) - five years...