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FILM DIRECTOR

Deepa Mehta

1950 - Today

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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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  • 4.62

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Deepa Mehta ranks 1,465 out of 1,581Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Deepa Mehta ranks 544Before 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.

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In India

Among people born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 779 out of 1,493Before 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).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 17Before 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).

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