SCORCHED BY FIRE, DROWNED BY WATER, NO HEAVEN ON A CRACKED EARTH: ‘A LOOK’ AT DEEPA MEHTA’S WOMEN

Abstract

This article focuses only on Deepa Mehta’s importance as a film-maker of Indian diaspora now indwelling in Canada. This paper shall interlock with the films made between 1996 and 2008, i.e., Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bollywood/Hollywood (2002), Water (2005), Heaven on Earth (2008). Needless to reiterate, that these five films, too, like the others in her oeuvre, have brought her many awards. Though it is imperative to look at the entire oeuvre of an artist, this selection is hoped to prove adequate for the defining purposes of this work, and would ‘throw’ glimpses that could enable others to construct the missing elements.