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Light's Camera Action!

hadjiboy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:56:48 -0800

Deepa Mehta's Water (Fire and Earth), and Mira Nair's The Namesake (Monsoon Wedding). Two Indian born Women directors whose latest movies are out right now (maybe even at a theater near you): check it out!

By: brujita

brujita — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:14:23 -0800

Earth was based on Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India; she also wrote the novelization for Water.

By: quin

quin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:38:16 -0800

After reading this review, I'm really looking forward to seeing The Namesake, and I'm the kind of person who normally prefers more explosions and car chases in my movie going experience, so that's saying a lot.

By: zippy

zippy — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:03:13 -0800

Mehta filter.

By: ontic

ontic — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:05:15 -0800

I saw a trailer for Namesake before Notes on a Scandal and the trailer brought me close to tears. Still, it's not hard to mask a movie's badness with a trailer. It's good to hear it might be all right.

By: muckster

muckster — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:25:56 -0800

Marcy's got reviews of The Namesake and Water, one of her favorite films of 2006. Previously on Mefi: an interview with Kal Penn.

By: Artifice_Eternity

Artifice_Eternity — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:09:00 -0800

I saw Water last year. Amazing movie: brutal, life-affirming, gorgeous.

By: nostrada

nostrada — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 18:23:55 -0800

Nandita Das! Enough said.

By: dbarefoot

dbarefoot — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:37:54 -0800

"Water" is a great movie. I was a little surprised to hear that it's "out right now", as it was released about a year and a half ago in Canada (Deepa Mehta is based in Toronto). The film took a long time to get made, and was fraught with controversy and disruption during filming.