Deepa Mehta's Water also features a hijra character by the name of Gulabi.

He is also starring in Deepa Mehta's next film, Kamagata Maru with Amitabh Bachchan and John Abraham.

Ketan Mehta's Hindi film, Mangal Pandey: The Rising ( 2005 ) is about the life of Mangal Pandey, an Indian soldier who is known for his role in rebellion.

Sidhwa's novel Cracking India, ( 1991, U. S .; 1992, India ; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England ), is the basis for Mehta's 1998 film, Earth.

An excerpt is quoted in Canadian director Deepa Mehta's film, Water.

It is the first of Mehta's Elements trilogy.

Ketan Mehta's debut film is a successful adaptation of folk idioms into cinema.

Earth is the second part of Mehta's Elements trilogy.

The film is also the third part of Mehta's Elements trilogy.

It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films ( most notably her Elements Trilogy of Fire, Earth, and Water ), which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.

He went on to star in Ketan Mehta's Maya Memsaab, an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.

In the same year she played the leading role of Chand in Deepa Mehta's Canadian film Heaven on Earth, a Punjabi language mystical drama based on the true story of a young Indian woman who, post an arranged marriage to a non-resident Indian man from Canada, migrates to Toronto and becomes a victim of severe domestic abuse.

Deepa Mehta's 1996 film Fire, which depicts a romantic relationship between two Hindu women, was informally banned for " religious insensitivity " after Hindu Nationalists attacked cinemas where it was being screened on the grounds that it denigrated Indian culture, not on the grounds of homophobia per se, a position shared and confirmed by feminist Madhu Kishwar.

The film was highly appreciated amongst the critics and Khan's role as a dedicated, honest and uncorrupted cop engaged in fighting border terrorism, was well received, as was his role in Deepa Mehta's art house film Earth.

There's also a loose reference in Deepha Mehta's Bollywood / Hollywood in the guise of Rocky or Rokini.

Mehta's first marriage was to Canadian soprano Carmen Lasky in 1958.

Mehta's life has been documented in Terry Sanders ' film Portrait of Zubin Mehta.

In 2005, Mukerji starred in four high-profile films: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black, Shaad Ali's Bunty Aur Babli, Amol Palekar's Paheli and Ketan Mehta's The Rising.

Ketan Mehta's very first film Bhavni Bhavai, a Gujarati film, won him acclaim.

Mirch Masala was one of Ketan Mehta's notable efforts which won him the Best Film Award at Hawaii.

His next release Ashok Mehta's Moksha was actually his first film but was released after Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat.

These films are also notable for Mehta's collaborative work with author Bapsi Sidhwa.

Mehta's film, Water, was later published by Sidhwa as the 2006 novel, Water: A Novel.

In December 2005, Mehta's painting Gesture was sold for 31 million Indian rupees to Ranjit Malkani, chairman of Kuomi Travel, at the Osian ’ s auction.

Mehta's were the first works by a contemporary Indian artist to sell for over a million dollars, and indicated a burgeoning interest in Indian art by the international market ; as a result, Mehta became a cultural hero.

* Svaraj: a journey with Tyeb Mehta's " Shantiniketan triptych ", by Ramchandra Gandhi.

This was followed by Ketan Mehta's Sardar, which saw him playing the lead role of freedom fighter Vallabhbhai Patel, a role that got him not only national but international acclaim.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

`` What is your name, boy??

`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

`` What is your name ''??

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.