Deepa Mehta Analysis

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Deepa Mehta Biography “Born in India in 1950, Mehta received a degree in philosophy from the University of New Delhi. After immigrating to Canada in 1973, she embarked on her professional cinematic career as a scriptwriter for children's films, and in 1991, she made her feature-film debut as a director and producer with Sam & Me.” (Nytimes.com,. 'Deepa Mehta - Biography - Movies & TV - Nytimes.Com'. N.p., 2015. Web. 31 Oct. 2015.) Filmography: “Beeba Boys (2015), Midnight's Children (2012), The Forgotten Woman (2008), Let's Talk About It (2005), Water (2005), The Republic of Love (2003), Bollywood/Hollywood (2002), Earth (1998), Fire (1996), Skin Deep (1994), Camilla (1994), Sam & Me (1991) …show more content…

The way in which women are treating in Indian community is totally unfair and she talks about hegemony of male in Indian society and one interesting point is that, the women are fully following the culture and beliefs which treating them unfairly so this injustice or unfairness became part of their life and shaped their belief, even sometimes male are not believing to such value but still female are persisting or may there is the element of compulsion in the Fire movie it has been shown in Fire movie that wife is fasting because of long life of the husband but husband is not giving that much importance to such believes but here is the duty of female not to persist to such kind thoughts which has no meaning and it is just a trouble for them and the fire shows the extreme compulsion of the women to stay in husband house even in the worst situation because of not having any other option they have to deal with such a painful situation and it shows that religion and cultural value is very important for the society which they cannot escape from that in spite of creating so much trouble for them, such values have been shaped the thought system of the people and became part of the people life. Male can do whatever they want to do but if it comes to female it might be a big deal and a big issue if they do a small thing, it shows how the

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