Analysis

Deepa Mehta is an important and influential Indo-Canadian film auteur because she tackles relevant socio-political issues through cinema. Her films are provocative pieces of auteurism designed to provoke and change the perception of her viewers. She uses her movies to bring forward important issues such as the persecution of homosexuals, the Partition in India, and widowhood during the 1940’s in India.  Her film water was the second ever non-french foreign language film submitted by Canada to the Academy Awards for best foreign language film. Despite what many might think, Deepa Mehta is well known across hundreds of nations all over the world, it would be safe to assume that Deepa Mehta is going to have an enormous impact on the lives of many people. She continues to push the envelope and break barriers, she was the first to wide-release a film about an openly lesbian couple in India, she was the first to produce a gangster movie in 40 years, and she is a recipient of numerous awards and other accolades. Focussing on content about social isolationism and expression, that fear of being different and the stigma of being the outsider is certainly a global experience, and telling stories is a way to touch those universal truths; says Deepa, “My favourite director said something that always stays with me. He said, ‘the very minute we are particular is the very minute we become universal’. So if you tell a particular story from a particular context, you’re bound to hit the whole world.”.She is an upstanding example of modern femininity, and a prestigious content creator whom Canada should be very proud to call their own.