Earth

India / Canada 1998, 110 minutes
Dir. Deepa Mehta
In English, Hindi with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama

Topics: Period 1940s, Politics.

Feat. Maia Sethna, Nandita Das, Kitu Gidwani

Aroview: The director of FIRE takes on another controversial element of modern India with the second in her (proposed) trilogy - a humanistic view of the ethnic and religious clashes between India and Pakistan on the eve of their partition in 1947.

Bringing some understanding to a greatly misunderstood historical conflict, the impact of events on a group of religiously-mixed, working class friends is reflected through the 'non-partisan' eyes of an eight-year-old girl, while lavished in the sumptuous colour and sound palette of epic cinema tradition.

NZ International Film Festival 1999