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Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Deepa Mehta, Kumar Shahani to pay tribute to Satyajit Ray at IFFSA Toronto

Ray’s film The Home And The World (Ghare Baire) will be screened on the opening day of the...

26 Jul 2021 13:29 IST — Our Correspondent

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Oscars 2021: Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy out of the race for Best International Feature Film award

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rejected the entry from Canada for having too much...

21 Dec 2020 7:29 IST — Our Correspondent

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Funny Boy trailer: Charming, sweet introduction to a complex story

Deepa Mehta's film is based on the best-selling Canadian novel of the same name by Shyam...

02 Nov 2020 14:30 IST — Shriram Iyengar

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Canada selects Deepa Mehta’s Funny Boy as international feature entry for 2021 Oscars

Mehta’s Water (2005), starring Lisa Ray and John Abraham, had also been selected as entry for...

30 Oct 2020 6:00 IST — Sonal Pandya

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Ava DuVernay's Array Releasing picks up Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Funny Boy

Adapted from the Lankan novelist Shyam Selvadurai's bestselling book of the same name, the film...

16 Oct 2020 11:06 IST — Our Correspondent

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Pakistani short film Darling wins Satyajit Ray award at London Indian Film Festival

Indian filmmaker Aarti Neharsh’s short film Song We Sang was singled out for a special...

13 Jul 2020 19:23 IST — Our Correspondent

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Deepa Mehta confirms completion of Funny Boy shoot 

The filmmaker had begun shooting on the project in February 2019. ...

09 Mar 2020 9:09 IST — Our Correspondent

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First look poster: Huma Qureshi is on a mission in Netflix web-series Leila

The web-series, co-directed by Deepa Mehta, is based on the 2017 dystopian novel by Prayaag Akbar....

13 May 2019 7:30 IST — Sonal Pandya

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Deepa Mehta to be feted with Lifetime Achievement Award by Academy of Canadian and American Television

The Canadian Academy presented the award in honour of Mehta's 'tremendous impact she has had...

08 Feb 2019 14:30 IST — IANS

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Pawan Kumar, Shanker Raman join Deepa Mehta as co-directors on Netflix's Leila

The upcoming web-series is based on Prayaag Akbar's dystopian novel of the same name....

23 Nov 2018 19:31 IST — Shriram Iyengar

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Netflix announces 8 new original films; Priyanka Chopra, Anushka Sharma, Madhuri Dixit among producers 

Chopra’s Marathi film is called Fireband, Dixit’s Marathi film is 15th August, while has...

09 Nov 2018 12:30 IST — Mayur Lookhar

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Deepa Mehta to shoot adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's book Funny Boy in February 2019

The Indo-Canadian filmmaker announced and confirmed her new film set in Sri Lanka during her recent...

10 Sep 2018 11:30 IST — Sonal Pandya

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How Deepa Mehta adapted Bapsi Sidhwa’s novels for the big screen: Birthday special

For the Indo-Canadian filmmaker’s 66th birthday, a look at how she turned Bapsi Sidhwa’s...

15 Sep 2017 2:30 IST — Sonal Pandya

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Priyanka Chopra guest of honour at Toronto film festival gala in support of female filmmakers

The Quantico actress will be in conversation with Cameron Bailey, the festival’s artistic a it...

21 Jul 2017 6:12 IST — Sonal Pandya

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Women's Day: 20 directors who are changing the game

On International Women's Day, Cinestaan.com takes a look at woman directors who have given a new...

08 Mar 2017 7:53 IST — The Cinestaan Team

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Sharmila Tagore, Deepa Mehta, Freida Pinto join Academy's Class of 2016

Filmmaker Mehta and actresses Tagore and Pinto have been invited to join the most exclusive movie in...

30 Jun 2016 13:17 IST — Sonal Pandya