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HEAVEN ON EARTH

Chand leaves her home and loving family behind in India to build a new life in Canada. She moves to Brampton, Ontario and marries Rocky, a man she has never met. Rocky is overwhelmed by the burden of his family: a controlling mother and confused father, and the sister, her husband and two children that he is obliged to support.

Bright and well-educated, Chand feels trapped in a world with which she cannot connect. Estranged and mistreated by her new family, homesick and missing her family in India, Chand becomes the brunt of Rocky’s frustrations as the pressures of life wear down his basic decency. Having no one to turn to, Chand begins to fantasize another version of her life, one based on an Indian fable.

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Deepa Mehta
Director

Indian-born Deepa Mehta studied philosophy at the University of New Delhi before coming to Canada in 1973 where she began in cinema as a screenwriter for children’s films. Her first feature film, Sam & Me, won an honourable mention in the Caméra d'Or category of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. From there, Mehta went on to write, produce and direct a range of films set in various countries, several languages and spanning many genres. However, it was her seventh film, Water, nominated in 2006 for an Oscar in the category of best foreign language film, that brought worldwide recognition to her unique directorial style.

35 mm

100 minutes

Colour

Aspect ratio

2.35

Original version in English and Punjabi

Subtitled in English

Producer

David Hamilton

Director and Scriptwriter

Deepa Mehta

Director of Photography

Giles Nuttgens

Editor

Colin Monie

Sound

Sylvain Arsenault

Cast

Preity Zinta

Vajinder Bhardwaj

Balinder Johal

Rajinder Singh Cheema

Production

Hamilton-Mehta Heaven Productions Inc.
720 Bathurst St.
Suite 304
Toronto Ontario
M5S 2R4
Canada
(416) 516-0899
(416) 516-3099
info@hamiltonmehta.com
www.hamiltonmehta.com