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name: "Deepa Mehta"
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born: "1 January 1950"
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# Deepa Mehta

Director. Born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1950, Amritsar, Punjab, India

## Biography

Deepa Mehta is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter. She studied philosophy at the University of New Delhi before moving to Canada, where she began her career making documentaries.

Mehta is best known for her Elements Trilogy: *Fire* (1996), *Earth* (1998) and *Water* (2005). Her other feature films include *Bollywood/Hollywood* (2002), *Midnight's Children* (2012) and *Funny Boy* (2020). She has also directed episodes of the television series *Little America* (2020) and *Yellowjackets* (2021).

She co-founded the production company Hamilton-Mehta Productions with producer David Hamilton. Mehta has received the Order of Canada and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, thecanadianencyclopedia.ca.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Yellowjackets* (2021), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/yellowjackets.md)

## Also known for

- *Water* (2005), Screenplay, Director
- *Little America* (2020), Director
- *Fire* (1997), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Midnight's Children* (2012), Director, Co-Writer
- *Earth* (1998), Screenplay, Director

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