7. Deepa MehtaAn Indo Canadian filmmaker, Deepa hails from Amritsar.
After completing graduation in India, deepa started making documentaries and worked with Canadian documentarian Paul Saltzman, who was in India making a film and whom she was to later marry and migrate with to Canada in 1973.
She has been in controversies for her element triology films.
She is a keen explorer of Indian cultural taboos and customs and portrays them in her films too.
She has achieved numerous awards for her films.
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