{"id":1566,"date":"2005-05-16T23:38:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T04:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1566"},"modified":"2005-05-16T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T03:21:57","slug":"is_deepa_mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/16\/is_deepa_mehta\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Deepa Mehta Back in the Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indo-Canadian Filmaker Deepa Mehta has signed on to direct, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&#038;articleID=VR1117922939&#038;categoryID=19&#038;cs=1\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>,  a new documentary for Canadian Television entitled, &#8220;For Crying Out Loud,&#8221; a film focusing on four women\u00c2\u2014hailing from India, El Salvador, Nigeria and Canada\u00c2\u2014who have been victims of domestic violence.<\/p>\n\n<p>I am glad that Mehta is coming back, especially after the poor show with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0303785\/\">Bollywood\/Hollywood<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0345855\/\">The Republic of Love<\/a>, but what I really want to know is, when will <em>Water,<\/em> the final film in her trilogy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116308\/\">Fire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0150433\/\">1947 Earth<\/a>) be released?   I liked Fire, while a little slow and odd, after Mississippi Masala, it was my first foray into contemporary (non-Bollywood) Indian cinema, and I was enthralled by Mehta&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0150433\/\">1947 Earth<\/a> was released, not only did I first see Amir Khan as a real actor, I saw that Deepa Mehta had the potential to make a serious impact on international cinema.  Earth was a huge improvement on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116308\/\">Fire<\/a>, and I was anxiously awaiting the last installment of the trilogy, Water.<\/p>\n\n<p>Anyway, a little Google search led me to this article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiadaily.com\/breaking_news\/33071.asp\">India Daily<\/a> which suggests an imminent release.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>After causing a spark in a tinderbox, her film Water is finally complete and ready for an early release. With a new cast and new settings, the film will hit theatres in November. &#8220;I&#8221;m so glad I&#8221;ve got it out of my system. Now I feel I could just retire. I&#8221;m that satisfied with Water,&#8221; said the director. The film&#8217;s rights have been given to NRI entrepreneur <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/venture\/millionairequiz\/millionaire_virmani.html\">Ajay Virmani<\/a>.<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indo-Canadian Filmaker Deepa Mehta has signed on to direct, according to Variety, a new documentary for Canadian Television entitled, &#8220;For Crying Out Loud,&#8221; a film focusing on four women\u00c2\u2014hailing from India, El Salvador, Nigeria and Canada\u00c2\u2014who have been victims of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/16\/is_deepa_mehta\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}