|
By Sudhir Daruwala Š2005 Bollyvista.com |
|
|
Deepa Mehta |
Indo-Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta's 'Water' opened the 30th annual Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on Thursday 8th of September. The film festival will run over 10 days and it will screen 335 films from 52 countries. Eighty four percent of the titles are world, international or North American Premieres.
'Water', the third in Deepa Mehta's elements trilogy that also includes 1996's 'Fire' and 1998's 'Earth' was chosen as the film shown at Thursday night's gala opening. Surrounded by controversy, the story of the film revolves around a child bride (8 yr) in pre-Independence India who is exiled to a widow's ashram after her husband's death. The story offended hindu fundamentalists so much that they violently attacked her on location set in Varanasi in 2000.
After facing riots, fires and death threats, Mehta and her crew packed it in and closed down the production and she returned to canada to make 'Bollywood Hollywood' with Lisa Ray and Rahul Khanna, a fun filled film, 'Bollywood Hollywood' gave her a break from her trilogy series but she didn't forget about 'Water' which boasts of having the best music score by MD A.R. Rahman ever (in his own words of course). She eventualy finished 'Water' in Sri Lanka.
The film stars Lisa Ray and John Abraham who were both present at the gala-opening of the festival. |
SEARCH
