1950 - Today
Deepa Mehta, ([diːpa ˈmeːɦta]; born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005). Earth was submitted by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Water was Canada's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film A Bullet to the Head and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deepa Mehta has received more than 1,052,266 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Deepa Mehta is the 1,465th most popular film director (down from 1,329th in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from India (down from 714th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Deepa Mehta ranks 1,465 out of 1,581. Before her are McG, Malik Bendjelloul, Brad Anderson, Montxo Armendáriz, Tate Taylor, and Bimal Roy. After her are Olivier Dahan, Martha Coolidge, Tatsuya Ishihara, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Radu Jude, and Lee Garmes.
1968 - Present
HPI: 40.02
Rank: 1,459
1977 - 2014
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 1,460
1964 - Present
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 1,461
1949 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 1,462
1969 - Present
HPI: 39.95
Rank: 1,463
1909 - 1966
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 1,464
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 1,465
1967 - Present
HPI: 39.88
Rank: 1,466
1946 - Present
HPI: 39.87
Rank: 1,467
1966 - Present
HPI: 39.87
Rank: 1,468
1960 - Present
HPI: 39.85
Rank: 1,469
1977 - Present
HPI: 39.83
Rank: 1,470
1898 - 1978
HPI: 39.82
Rank: 1,471
Among people born in 1950, Deepa Mehta ranks 544. Before her are Lansana Kouyaté, Danny Kirwan, Laura Ziskin, George Nelson, Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, and Masami Kuwashima. After her are Chris Taylor, John Patrick Shanley, Asa Hutchinson, Tim Keller, Gregory Harrison, and Bob Kulick.
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 538
1950 - 2018
HPI: 39.99
Rank: 539
1950 - 2011
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 540
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 541
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 542
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.93
Rank: 543
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 544
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 545
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.81
Rank: 546
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.75
Rank: 547
1950 - 2023
HPI: 39.73
Rank: 548
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.67
Rank: 549
1950 - 2020
HPI: 39.63
Rank: 550
Among people born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 779 out of 1,493. Before her are Arvind Kejriwal (1968), K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954), Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905), Puneeth Rajkumar (1975), Arun Jaitley (1952), and Balram Jakhar (1923). After her are Mehmood (1932), Nanda (1939), Geeta Bali (1930), Ram Swarup (1920), Anuradha Paudwal (1954), and J. H. C. Whitehead (1904).
1968 - Present
HPI: 40.01
Rank: 773
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.97
Rank: 774
1905 - 1982
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 775
1975 - 2021
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 776
1952 - 2019
HPI: 39.94
Rank: 777
1923 - 2016
HPI: 39.93
Rank: 778
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 779
1932 - 2004
HPI: 39.89
Rank: 780
1939 - 2014
HPI: 39.85
Rank: 781
1930 - 1965
HPI: 39.84
Rank: 782
1920 - 1998
HPI: 39.78
Rank: 783
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.77
Rank: 784
1904 - 1960
HPI: 39.69
Rank: 785
Among film directors born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 17. Before her are Tarsem Singh (1961), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Tapan Sinha (1924), Shyam Benegal (1934), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), and V. Shantaram (1901). After her are Subhash Ghai (1945), K. Balachander (1930), Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1922), Aparna Sen (1945), Karan Johar (1972), and Mani Ratnam (1956).
1961 - Present
HPI: 43.26
Rank: 11
1914 - 1987
HPI: 42.26
Rank: 12
1924 - 2009
HPI: 41.76
Rank: 13
1934 - Present
HPI: 41.27
Rank: 14
1948 - Present
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 15
1901 - 1990
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 16
1950 - Present
HPI: 39.90
Rank: 17
1945 - Present
HPI: 38.25
Rank: 18
1930 - 2014
HPI: 38.21
Rank: 19
1922 - 2006
HPI: 37.64
Rank: 20
1945 - Present
HPI: 37.61
Rank: 21
1972 - Present
HPI: 37.17
Rank: 22
1956 - Present
HPI: 37.00
Rank: 23