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Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor has been approached by two renowned female filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair. But the actor is in a great dilemma because both the filmmakers can’t see eye to eye so Shahid is bound to choose any one of them. Both directors have offered Shahid very powerful and role-driven scripts and [...]

Director Deepa Mehta sounded very excited when she signed Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut for her next film ‘Midnight’s Children’, which is based on Salman Rushdie’s book by the same name. But now, the actress has quit the project by clearing the way for another actress to play the role of Emerald, which was offered to [...]

Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan has now signed Deepa Mehta’s much talked movie Midnight’s Children, which has seasoned actors like Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Nandita Das, and Irrfan Khan. The movie is an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize winning novel with the same title. The film will start shooting later this year. Soha is [...]

Mumbai, Irrfan Khan has been offered a major role in Deepa Mehta’s film adaptation of “Midnight’s Children”. But this means the actor won’t be seen playing the lead in the next film by Mira Nair, with whom he did “The Namesake”, as the two would be shot at the same time. Deepa met Irrfan earlier [...]

BollywoodWorld.com, Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta might have wielded the megaphone for serious movies like “Earth”, “Fire”, “Water” and “Heaven On Earth” but she says whatever be her subjects, they derive out of her “passion” for good stories. “I don’t make commercial films or work in Bollywood. I don’t have a book with formulas. It [...]

Mumbai, Canadian born Bollywood actress Lisa Ray, who was diagnosed with a rare cancer, has been a “portrait of courage” in her battle against the disease and will walk the red carpet Sep 16 at the Toronto Film Festival, said filmmaker Deepa Mehta. Lisa has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the [...]

Mumbai, There is a big fat wedding waiting to happen at filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s country villa in Canada. Her daughter Devyani is set to marry architect Ian Chodikoff, who also edits the Canadian Architect magazine. Devyani and Ian have been seeing each other for some years. Pleased as punch with the alliance, proud mother-in-law Mehta [...]

“Heaven On Earth” is not a film that offers easily digestible solutions to the complex problem of domestic violence. It neither takes sides nor allows the bride to turn into a pitiable victim. Preity standing supremely dignified at the centre of the conflict furnishes the theme with amazing grace. She’s the only known face in the crowded Punjabi home of patriarchs, matriarchs, victims and perpetrators of bitter violence. But Preity never lets it known she’s a star.

New Delhi, Bollywood actress Preity Zinta believes that every scene in her forthcoming release “Videsh”, a film about a battered Punjabi housewife in Canada, is some woman’s story. The movie deals with domestic violence and Zinta is confident that women will identify with her character. “Every scene in this film is some woman’s story. It [...]