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 1,108,720 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Deepa Mehta is the 1,528th most popular film director (down from 1,459th in 2019), the 869th most popular biography from India (down from 775th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Film Director.

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  • 31

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  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Deepa Mehta ranks 1,528 out of 2,041. Before her are Raoul Peck, Frank Perry, Christophe Honoré, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Cristina Comencini, and David Trueba. After her are Zaza Urushadze, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Elmer Clifton, Alice Rohrwacher, Steven Lisberger, and Nikolai Ekk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Deepa Mehta ranks 597. Before her are José Carlos Serrão, Theresa Kachindamoto, Graham Parker, Masami Kuwashima, Timothy M. Dolan, and Jorge Fernández Díaz. After her are P. J. Soles, Eugenio Morel, John Byrne, Anthimos Kapsis, Sheila Young, and Harriet Harman.

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In India

Among people born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 869 out of 1,861. Before her are Neetu Singh (1958), Rolf Edling (1943), J. H. C. Whitehead (1904), Udham Singh (1928), Sonu Nigam (1973), and Zinat-un-Nissa Begum (1643). After her are Pratima Barua Pandey (1934), Huma Qureshi (1986), Kanu Sanyal (1928), P. Bhanumathi (1925), Arun Jaitley (1952), and Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Deepa Mehta ranks 17. Before her are Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), Ismail Merchant (1936), V. Shantaram (1901), and Subhash Ghai (1945). After her are Aparna Sen (1945), Tapan Sinha (1924), Karan Johar (1972), Nasir Hussain (1931), Prakash Jha (1952), and Mani Ratnam (1956).

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