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Earth: A Screenplay
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl witnesses tragedy as her ayah (nanny) is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
EARTH, THE SCOND FILM IN DEEPA MEHTA'S CONTROVERSIAL TRILOGY IS AN EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING LOVE STORY SET WITHIN THE SWEEPING SOCIAL UPHEAVAL & VIOLENCE OF 1947 INDIA.
EARTH, THE SCOND FILM IN DEEPA MEHTA'S CONTROVERSIAL TRILOGY IS AN EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING LOVE STORY SET WITHIN THE SWEEPING SOCIAL UPHEAVAL & VIOLENCE OF 1947 INDIA.
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Published April 8, 2003
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Bapsi Sidhwa
22 books377 followersBapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.
She was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel, on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".
She was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel, on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".
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