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...Children SUBHASH K JHA 24 August 2009, 12:00am IST The last time they came together Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das created a stir of echoes as a lesbian couple in Deepa Mehta's Fire. 12 years later Deepa is all set to bring the fiery...

In this article: Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Water, Midnight's Children, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Akshay Kumar, and Seema Biswas

...and they hope to have cameras rolling in 2010. Indian actors Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, who starred in two earlier Mehta films, "Fire" and "Earth," are on board to star in the project. Both Mehta and Rushdie were born in India, with...

In this article: Salman Rushdie, India, Midnight's Children, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Mehta, Earth, and Britain

Fire (1996 film) Fire () is a 1996 film directed and written by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first of Mehta's "Elements" trilogy. It is followed by ''Earth '' (1998) and ''Water '' (2005). The film is...

In this article: Shiv Sena, Deepa Mehta, Ashok Row Kavi, Radha, India, Dilip Kumar, Hinduism, and Ideology

...actors would work together." Known for her strong roles in offbeat films like "Fire", "1947 Earth" and "Bawandar", Nandita also thinks that her being typecast as an "art-house" actor is natural. "Some amount of typecasting is...

In this article: Nandita Das, Ramchand Pakistani, India, Pakistan, Typecasting, Khuda Kay Liye, Before the Rains, Pusan International Film Festival, Maria Wasti, and Telluride Film Festival

New Delhi, Jul 31 : Award winning actress and independent filmmaker Nandita Das, critically acclaimed for her performances in Deepa Mehta's 'Fire' and 'Earth' and Jagmohan Mundhra's 'Bawandar' and lauded for her brilliant directorial debut...

In this article: Nandita Das, Earth, Deepa Mehta, India, Bengal tiger, Shahana Goswami, AIDS, Kara Film Festival, and International Thessaloniki Film Festival

Well-known actors Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, who had acted in Mehta's earlier critically acclaimed but controversial movies including 'Fire' and 'Earth', will have major roles in the movie and the rest of the cast is still being...

In this article: Salman Rushdie, Deepa Mehta, Midnight's Children, Earth, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, India, and New York

...services to literature in 2007. India-born Ms Mehta is now based in Canada. Her elemental trilogy Fire, Earth and Water was Canada's official entry for Oscars. She has roped in her favourite Indian actors, Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi to...

In this article: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, Deepa Mehta, Nandita Das, Celluloid, India, Oscars, The Satanic Verses, Shabana Azmi, and Indira Gandhi

...they did not want to do the lesbian scene. In the past only actresses like Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi in 'Fire' and Amrita Arora and Isha Koppikar in 'Girlfriend' have shown some guts. By the way, it wasn't all that easy for Divya...

In this article: Amrita Arora, Isha Koppikar, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, and Delhi 6

...plays a central role in the film. Acclaimed for her ability to perform unusual roles with aplomb, Nandita has films like "Fire," "Hazaar Chaurasi ki Maa," "Bawandar," "Earth" and "Pitaah" to her credit. Describing "Ramchand Pakistani" as a...

In this article: Ramchand Pakistani, Nandita Das, India, Khuda Kay Liye, Mehreen Jabbar, Maria Wasti, Pakistan, and Earth