Deepa Mehta ,(born 1950 in Amritsar Punjab, India) is a controversial Indian-Canadian film director and screenwriter who is based in Toronto and Delhi. Wikipedia
Deepa Mehta, who has been described as "Canada's most internationally renowned woman film-maker" (Levitin, An Introduction ..., p273), was born in 1950 in Amritsar, a city on India's border with Pakistan. www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-708-e.html
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