Deepa Mehta

Films directed by Deepa Mehta

• At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch (1975)
• Indira Gandhi: The State of India (1976)
• Jafar's Blue Tiles (1977)
• What's the Weather Like Up There? (1977)
• Ming-Oi the Magician (Hong Kong) (1979)
• Shao Ping the Acrobat (China) (1981)
• Yang-Xun the Peasant Painter (China) (1981)
• K.Y.T.E.S: How We Dream Ourselves (1986)
• Travelling Light (1986)
• Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)
• The Twin (1988)
• Sam & Me (1990)  (also known as: "Sam and Me", "Sam y yo")
• Camilla (1994)  (also known as: "Freda y Camilla")
• Fire (1996)  (also known as: "Fire - Wenn die Liebe Feuer fängt", "Fogo", "Fogo E Desejo", "Fuego", "Ogien", "Tuli")
• Earth (1998)  (also known as: "1947: Earth", "1947: Föld", "Jaettu maa", "Terre", "Ziemia")
• Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)  (also known as: "Bollywood Hollywood")
• The Republic of Love (2003)
• Let's Talk About It (2005)
• Water (2005)  (also known as: "Agua", "River Moon")
• Heaven on Earth (2008)  (also known as: "Le paradis sur terre", "Niebo na ziemi", "Yeryüzü cenneti")
• Midnight's Children (2012)  (also known as: "Hijos de la medianoche", "I figli della mezzanotte", "Les enfants de minuit", "Mitternachtskinder", "Os Filhos da Meia-Noite", "Winds of Change")
• Beeba Boys (2015)
• Anatomy of Violence (2016)
• Funny Boy (2020)
• I Am Sirat (2023)

Quotes by Deepa Mehta

"I'm not naive. I know that films are very powerful. But I certainly don't say, 'I'm going to make a film that has a social message,' or 'Because I'm coloured or I'm a woman it has to be this way, otherwise it might be misinterpreted.' I want to be free to explore everything, even something that doesn't make me look too good. If I want to explore it, it has to come from a place of honesty and not what is expected of me because I happen to be non-White or a woman."
-- Deepa Mehta (source)

"Many of my films centre around women characters who are involved in [...] struggles. This was not a plan, but when I look back—there it is. While exploring women's lives, the characters usually come up against 'patriarchy'. It's just there, so often in the way, diminishing women's lives and potential everywhere in the world."
-- Deepa Mehta (source)

"My father, who was a distributor in India, told me there were two things in life you will never know about: one is when you are going to die and the other is how a film is going to do at the box office. When you grow up with that kind of philosophy, you never say I'm going to make this film so I can make another one if this film does well. You don't have a clue how a film is going to turn out."
-- Deepa Mehta (source)

Quotes about Deepa Mehta

"As a humanist filmmaker, [Deepa] Mehta has demonstrated her penchant for creating complex human dramas in equally complex social settings."
-- Amy Fung (source)

"Drawn to all types of conflict, whether it be personal or political, Deepa Mehta patrols the horizon of everyday reality like a Canadian peacekeeper: watchful, empathetic and ever hopeful that she can make a difference every time she maps a landmine of intolerance."
-- Katherine Monk (source)

"What is unique about [Deepa] Mehta's filmography in Canadian cinema is not only her broad commercial success, but also her continued ability to bring her dual perspective to bear on both of her home countries, to continue making movies in India despite intense and sometimes violent protests, and to continue making movies in Canada despite ongoing funding battles."
-- David L. Pike (source)

"In her Indian films, [Deepa] Mehta does question and deconstruct the attempts of the post-colonial nation-state to perpetuate and mobilize tradition (or the collective archetype) in the name of what fundamentalist Hindu parties perceive as national survival vis-à-vis the economic and cultural threats brought on by globalization, Western individualism, and consumerism. In her North American films, however, she probes the exclusivity of said individualism and consumerism as the only desirable way to go, and thus implies, if not points to, a possible hybrid ideal, one that combines the best of both worlds."
-- Christina Stojanova (source)

"In [Deepa] Mehta's oeuvre, transnational realities are deftly acknowledged and straddled alongside a feminist ethical stance."
-- Sharon Lin Tay (source)

For QUOTES about a specific film by Deepa Mehta, please see:   At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch    Ming-Oi the Magician (Hong Kong)    Yang-Xun the Peasant Painter (China)    Shao Ping the Acrobat (China)    Sam & Me    Camilla    Fire    Earth    Bollywood/Hollywood    The Republic of Love    Let's Talk About It    Water    Heaven on Earth    Midnight's Children    Beeba Boys    Anatomy of Violence    Funny Boy   

Notes about Deepa Mehta

• Born in Amritsar, India.
• Daughter of a film distributor.
• Studied philosophy at the University of New Delhi, then joined a group of documentary filmmakers.
• Moved to Canada in the early 1970s.
• Founded Sunrise Films with her then husband, documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman and her brother, photographer Dilip Mehta.
• Received the Clyde Gilmour Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2015.

Bibliography for Deepa Mehta

Section 1: Publications by Deepa Mehta

• Mehta, Deepa. "Afterword." In Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film , by Devyani Saltzman, 269-270. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005.
• Mehta, Deepa. "Pioneering director Deepa Mehta reflects on her immigrant experience: 'Where did you learn such good English?'." Variety, May 16, 2022.

Section 2: Publications about Deepa Mehta

Books

• Jain, Jasbir, ed. Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.

Book Chapters

• Heath, Jennifer. "Ruler of Love's Republic: Deepa Mehta Seen from the US Southwest." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 23-38. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Levitin, Jacqueline. "Deepa Mehta as Transnational Filmmaker, or You Can't Go Home Again." In North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, edited by William Beard and Jerry White, 270-293. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002.
• Levitin, Jacqueline. "An Introduction to Deepa Mehta: Making Films in Canada and India; with Extracts from an Interview Conducted by Kass Banning." In Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul, 273-283. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003.
• McGowan, Sharon. "Excerpts from a Master Class with Deepa Mehta." In Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul, 284-291. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003.
• Parameswaran, Uma. "Problematising Diasporic Motivation: Deepa Mehta's Films." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 10-22. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Simoni, Suzanne. "Deepa Mehta: Remaining True to a Vision." In Fantastic Female Filmmakers [note: 'for young readers'], 69-78. Toronto: Second Story Press, 2008.
• Stojanova, Christina. "Beyond Tradition and Modernity: The Transnational Universe of Deepa Mehta." In The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers, edited by Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, 217-232. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.
• Tay, Sharon Lin. "On the Edges of Post-Colonialism: Deepa Mehta and Transnational Cinema." In Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices, 108-125. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Brief Sections of Books

• Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. (pp. 177-180)
• Monk, Katherine. Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001. (pp. 200-202)
• Pike, David L. Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. (pp. 265-266)

Journal Articles

• Moodley, Subeshini. "Postcolonial Feminisms Speaking through an 'Accented' Cinema: The Construction of Indian Women in the Films of Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta." Agenda, no. 58 (2003): 66-75.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Coleman, Sarah. "Shaking the tree: When it comes to modern mores, Deepa Mehta refuses to stop asking why." Independent: A Magazine for Video and Filmmakers, March 2006.
• Flahive, Gerry. "Young hands, old skills: Sunrise Films." Cinema Canada, February 1980.
• Gillmor, Don. "The divine Miss M." Toronto Life, October 2002.
• Johnson, Brian D. "The damming of Water." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Maclean's, October 28, 2002.
• Koller, George Csaba. "Sunrise goes east." Cinema Canada, September 1975.
• Lévesque, François. "Entrevue : Deepa Mehta : Ouverture et imagination." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Le Devoir, October 25, 2008. [in French]
• McKibbins, Adrienne. "Meeting Mehta: A conversation with the director of 'Water'." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Metro, no. 149, 2006.

Documentaries

• Deepa Mehta, in Profile. Directed by Nettie Wild. National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada, 2012.

Dissertation Chapters

• Rajgopal, Shoba Sharad. "Gender, Nation, and the (Re) Definition of the Female Subaltern by Deepa Mehta." In "From Izzat to Heimat: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Nationalism in the Cinema of the South Asian Diaspora," 218-253. PhD diss., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2003.

Web Sites

• Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. "Femmes à l'honneur : leurs réalisations : les femmes dans le cinéma canadien : Deepa Mehta." Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1258-f.html. [in French]
• Fung, Amy. "The Canadian Encyclopedia: Mehta Deepa." Historica Foundation of Canada. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009495.
• Fung, Amy. "L'Encyclopédie canadienne : Mehta Deepa." Fondation Historica du Canada. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0009495. [in French]
• Gravestock, Steve. "Canadian Film Encyclopedia: Deepa Mehta." Film Reference Library (Toronto International Film Festival Group). http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=51&navid=88&fid3=556.
• "IMDb: Deepa Mehta." Internet Movie Database, Inc. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576548/.
• Library and Archives Canada. "Celebrating Women's Achievements: Canadian Women in Film: Deepa Mehta." Library and Archives Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1258-e.html.
• "Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia: Deepa Mehta." Wikimedia Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepa_Mehta.

Section 3: Publications about the Films of Deepa Mehta

At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch (1975)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Ibrányi-Kiss, A. "Three short films on old people." Review of At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch. Cinema Canada, December-January 1974-1975.

Martha, Ruth and Edie (1988)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Caddell, Ian. "Martha, Ruth & Edie." Review of Martha, Ruth and Edie. Variety, May 25, 1988.
• Goddard, Peter. "Martha, Ruth and Edie a tale of modest triumph." Review of Martha, Ruth and Edie. Toronto Star, August 8, 1988.
• Scott, Jay. "Film review: Martha, Ruth & Edie." Review of Martha, Ruth and Edie. Globe and Mail, August 5, 1988.

Sam & Me (1990)  (also known as: "Sam and Me", "Sam y yo")

Book Chapters

• Banning, Kass. "Playing in the Light: Canadianizing Race and Nation." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault, 291-310. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Brief Sections of Books

• Monk, Katherine. Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001. (p. 333)

Journal Articles

• Pospísil, Tomás. "Sam and Me, Masala and Double Happiness: Multicultural Experience in Canadian Film of the Early 1990s." Brno Studies in English 33 (2007): 185-198.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Francke, Lizzie. "Sam and Me." Review of Sam & Me. Sight & Sound, December 1993.
• Groen, Rick. "Movie review: Sam and Me." Review of Sam & Me. Globe and Mail, September 20, 1991.
• Ruet, E. "Sam and Me / Deepa Mehta, réalisatrice couleur." Cinéma 72, June 1991. [in French]
• Variety. "Sam & Me." Review of Sam & Me. Variety, June 10, 1991.

Camilla (1994)  (also known as: "Freda y Camilla")

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Dussault, Serge. "Les violons de l'automne." Review of Camilla. La Presse, November 26, 1994. [in French]
• Groen, Rick. "Camilla." Review of Camilla. Globe and Mail, November 25, 1994.
• Johnson, Brian D. "Camilla." Review of Camilla. Maclean's, November 28, 1994.
• Kelly, Brendan. "Camilla." Review of Camilla. Variety, November 28, 1994.
• MacInnis, Craig. "Movie madness: Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's Camilla takes the late Jessica Tandy on an internal journey that crosses many borders." Toronto Star, November 25, 1994.
• Maslin, Janet. "Camilla." Review of Camilla. New York Times, December 16, 1994, Late New York Edition.
• Take One. "Deepa Mehta. 11 million dollar director." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Take One (Toronto), Autumn 1994.
• Thompson, Ben. "Camilla." Review of Camilla. Sight & Sound, March 1995.
• Turbide, Diane. "Camilla." Review of Camilla. Maclean's, June 28, 1993.

Fire (1996)  (also known as: "Fire - Wenn die Liebe Feuer fängt", "Fogo", "Fogo E Desejo", "Fuego", "Ogien", "Tuli")

Books

• Ghosh, Shohini. Fire: A Queer Film Classic. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010.

Book Chapters

• Bachmann, Monica. "After the Fire." In Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, edited by Ruth Vanita, 234-243. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Chadha, Simran. "Marginalised by Domesticity: The (Un) Desirable Women of Deepa Mehta's Trilogy - Fire, Earth and Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 85-99. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Chakrabarty, Bandana. "Female Bonding/Female Desire: Deepa Mehta's Fire." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 119-127. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Chatterjee, Madhuri. "Women's Bodies, Women's Voices: Exploring Women's Sensuality in Deepa Mehta's Trilogy." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 75-84. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Das, Dilip K. "Lesbianism As Resistance: Sex, Gender and Identity Politics in Deepa Mehta's Fire." In Signifying the Self: Women and Literature, edited by Malashri Lal, Shormishtha Panja, and Sumanyu Satpathy, 169-180. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2004.
• Fernandez, Bina, and N.B. Gomathy "Fire, Sparks, and Smouldering Ashes." In Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India, edited by Gautam Bhan and Arvind Narrain, 197-204. New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2005.
• Gopinath, Gayatri. "Local Sites / Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire." In Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
• Gopinath, Gayatri. "Local Sites/Global Contexts: The Transnational Trajectories of Fire and 'The Quilt'." In Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, 131-160. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Jain, Jasbir. "The Diasporic Eye and the Evolving I: Deepa Media's Elements Trilogy." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 54-74. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Jodha, Avinash. "Packaging India: The Fabric of Deepa Mehta's Cinematic Art." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 39-53. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Kabir, Shameem. "Lesbian Spectating of Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, Interdiscourse: Desperately Seeking Susan at the Bagdad Café Looking for Salmonberries and Fire." In Daughters of Desire: Lesbian Representations in Film, 183-207. Washington, DC: Cassell, 1998.
• Kishwar, Madhu Purnima. "Naive Outpourings of a Self-hating Indian: Deepa Mehta's Fire." In Zealous Reformers, Deadly Laws: Battling Stereotypes, 100-118. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2008.
• Lo, Malinda. "Fire Is Released in Toronto." In LGBT History, 1993-2004, edited by Great Neck Publishing, 57-59. Boston: Great Neck Publishing, 2005. [reference work]
• Nanda, Mini. "Symbolism and Space in Aparna Sen's Paroma and Deepa Mehta's Fire." In Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema, edited by Jasbir Jain and Sudha Rai. Jaipur, India: Rawat Publications, 2009.
• Pandey, Vikash N. "Emancipated Bodies / Embodying Liberation: Debating through Fire." In Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities, and Culture in South Asia, edited by Sanjay Srivastava, 188-208. New Delhi: Sage, 2004.
• Parameswaran, Uma. "Contextualizing Diasporic Locations in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Srinivas Krishna's Masala." In In Diaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts, edited by Makarand R. Paranjape. New Delhi: Indialog Publications, 2001.
• Patel, Geeta. "On Fire: Sexuality and Its Incitements." In Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society, edited by Ruth Vanita, 222-233. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Ramaswamy, Vijaya. "Deepa Mehta's Images of Fire: An Interview with Vijaya Ramaswamy." Interview with Deepa Mehta. In Re-searching Indian Women, edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy, 59-64. New Delhi: Manohar, 2003.
• Sengupta, Jayita. "Gendered Subject(s) in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 100-118. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Singh, Jaspal Kaur. "Queering Diaspora in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night, Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn, and Deepa Mehta's Fire." In Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora, 163-176. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2008.

Brief Sections of Books

• Bacchetta, Paola. "Extraordinary Alliances in Crisis Situations: Women against Hindu Nationalism in India." In Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice, edited by Kathleen M. Blee and France Winddance Twine. New York: New York University Press, 2001. (pp. 236-241)
• Butler, Alison. Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen. London: Wallflower, 2002. (pp. 120-123)
• Chaudhuri, Shohini. Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. (pp. 169-171)
• Darren, Alison. Lesbian Film Guide. New York: Cassell, 2000. (pp. 74-75)
• Dickinson, Peter. Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. (pp. 169-172)
• Gopalan, Lalitha. "Indian Cinema." In An Introduction to Film Studies, 3rd ed. , by Jill Nelmes. London: Routledge, 2003. (pp. 379-380)
• Hollinger, Karen. Feminist Film Studies. London: Routledge, 2012. (pp. 215-227)
• Kumar, Amitava. Passport Photos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. (pp. 192-195)
• Puri, Jyoti. Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1999. (pp. 204-207)
• Stockton, Kathryn Bond. "The Queerness of Race and Same-Sex Desire." In The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing, edited by Hugh Stevens. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (pp. 127-129)

Journal Articles

• Arora, Kulvinder. "The Mythology of Female Sexuality: Alternative Narratives of Belonging." Women 17, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 220-250.
• Banerjee, Bidisha. "Identity at the Margins: Queer Diasporic Film and the Exploration of Same-Sex Desire in Deepa Mehta's Fire." Studies in South Asian Film & Media 2, no. 1 (July 2010): 19-39.
• Banerjee, Payal. "Chinese Indians in Fire: Refractions of Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship in Post-Colonial India's Memories of the Sino-Indian War." China Report: A Journal of East Asian Studies 43, no. 4 (December 2007): 437-463.
• Banerjee, Sikata. "Women, Muscular Nationalism and Hinduism in India: Roop Kanwar and the Fire Protests." Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 11, no. 3 (2010): 271-287.
• Barron, Alexandra Lynn. "Fire's Queer Anti-Communalism." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 8, no. 2 (2008): 64-93.
• Bose, Brinda. "The Desiring Subject: Female Pleasures and Feminist Resistance in Deepa Mehta's Fire." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 7, no. 2 (July-December 2000): 249-262.
• Brasted, Howard, and Julie Marsh. "Fire, the BJP and Moral Society." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 25, no. 3 (2002): 235-251.
• Burton, David F. "Fire, Water and The Goddess: The Films of Deepa Mehta and Satyajit Ray as Critiques of Hindu Patriarchy." Journal of Religion and Film 17, no. 2 (2013).
• Chadha, Gita. "Fire: Towards a Relational Sexuality." New Quest 138 (November-December 1999): 353-357.
• Chowdhury, Kanishka. "Transnational Transgressions: Reading Mira Nair's Kama Sutra and Deepa Mehta's Fire in a Global Economy." South Asian Review 24, no. 1 (2003): 180-201.
• Craven, Sri. "Challenging Queer as 'Neoliberal': The Radical Politics of South Asian Diasporic Lesbian Representational Culture." Journal of International Women's Studies 18, no. 2 (2017): 45-58.
• Desai, Jigna. "Homo on the Range: Mobile and Global Sexualities." Social Text 20, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 65-89.
• Gairola, Rahul. "Burning with Shame: Desire and South Asian Patriarchy, from Gayatri Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' to Deepa Mehta's 'Fire'." Comparative Literature 54, no. 4 (2002): 307-324.
• Gairola, Rahul K. "Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth." South Asian Review 39, no. 3-4 (October 2018): 283-297.
• Gopinath, Gayatri. "Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion." Positions 5, no. 2 (Autumn 1997): 467-489.
• Gopinath, Gayatri. "On Fire." Review of Fire. GLQ 4, no. 4 (1998): 631-636.
• Goswami, Namita. "Autophagia and Queer Transnationality: Compulsory Heteroimperial Masculinity in Deepa Mehta's Fire." Signs 33, no. 2 (Winter 2008): 343-369.
• John, Mary E., and Tejaswini Niranjana. "Mirror Politics: Fire, Hindutva and Indian Culture." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (August 2000).
• Kapur, Ratna. "Too Hot to Handle: The Cultural Politics of Fire." Feminist Review, no. 64 (Spring 2000): 53-64.
• Krishnaswamy, Arudhra. "Lesbian 'Desis' in Deepa Mehta's 'Fire': Re-defining the boundaries of the (glo)bal and the lo(cal)." International Journal of the Humanities 8, no. 11 (2011): 313-323.
• Lohani-Chase, Rama. "Transgressive Sexualities: Politics of Pleasure and Desire in Kamasutra: A Tale of Love and Fire." Journal of Lesbian Studies 16, no. 2 (2012): 135-152.
• Loomba, Anita. "Turning Point: Fundamentals and English Studies." Textual Practice 13, no. 2 (1999): 221-225.
• Mahn, Churnjeet, and Diane Watt. "Relighting the Fire: Visualizing the Lesbian in Contemporary India." Journal of Lesbian Studies 18, no. 3 (2014): 223-236.
• Mannur, Anita. "Feeding Desire: Food, Domesticity, and Challenges to Hetero-Patriarchy." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 10, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 34-51.
• Moorti, Sujata. "Inflamed Passions: Fire, the Woman Question, and the Policing of Cultural Borders." Genders, no. 32 (2000).
• Naim, C.M. "A Dissent on 'Fire'." Economic and Political Weekly 34, no. 16/17 (April 17, 1999): 955-957.
• Patton, Laurie L. "Fire, the Kali Yuga, and Textual Reading." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68, no. 4 (2000): 805-816.
• Rajan, Gita. "Pliant and Compliant: Colonial Indian Art and Postcolonial Cinema." Women 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2002): 48-69.
• Senthorun, Raj. "Igniting Desires: Politicising Queer Female Subjectivities in Fire." Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, no. 28 (2012).
• Singh, Jaspal Kaur. "Transnational Multicultural Feminism and the Politics of Location: Queering Diaspora in Nisha Ganatra's Chutney Popcorn, Deepa Mehta's Fire, and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night." South Asian Review 26, no. 2 (2005): 148-161.
• Upadhya, Carol. "Set This House on Fire." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (August 2000).

Brief Sections of Journal Articles

• Bruschi, Isabella. "Making up with Painful History: The Partition of India in Bapsi Sidhwa's Work; Bapsi Sidhwa Interviewed by Isabella Bruschi." Interview with Bapsi Sidhwa. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43, no. 3 (2008). (pp. 148-149)
• Rockwell, Daisy. "The Shape of a Place: Translation and Cultural Marking in South Asian Fictions." Modern Philology 100, no. 4 (2003). (pp. 603-606)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Bearak, Barry. "A lesbian idyll, and the movie theaters surrender: Members of India's Shiv Sena movement violently attack theaters showing film Fire." New York Times, December 24, 1998, Late New York Edition.
• Comer, Brooke. "Fire sets traditional Indian family values ablaze: Shooting Fire, a film about a New Delhi family." American Cinematographer, January 1997.
• Cuthbert, Pamela. "Deepa Mehta's trial by fire." Review of Fire. Take One (Toronto), Winter 1997.
• Fuller, Graham. "Fire." Review of Fire. Interview, September 1997.
• Green, Sara Jean. "Director facing Indian protest: Deepa Mehta to defend lesbian portrayal in Fire." Toronto Star, December 4, 1998, Entertainment section.
• Groen, Rick. "Film review: Fire." Review of Fire. Globe and Mail, September 19, 1997.
• Herizons. "Fire under fire." Herizons, Winter 1999.
• Jaffer, Fatima. "Lesbians on screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival: Fire leaves myths in ashes." Review of Fire. Kinesis, November 1996.
• Johnson, Brian D. "Fire." Review of Fire. Maclean's, September 29, 1997.
• Kelly, Brendan. "Fire." Review of Fire. Variety, September 16, 1996.
• Kishwar, Madhu. "Naive outpourings of a self-hating Indian: Deepa Mehta's Fire." Manushi, no. 109, November-December 1998.
• Kishwar, Madhu. "Responses to Manushi." Manushi, no. 112, May-June 1999.
• Lacey, Liam. "East meets west in Deepa Mehta film: A director who spends half the year in Canada and half in her native India, Mehta says she refuses to choose when it comes to nationality." Globe and Mail, September 20, 1997, Metro Edition.
• Mahajan, Renu. "Fire." Review of Fire. Herizons, Spring 1998.
• Malik, Rachel. "Fire." Review of Fire. Sight & Sound, January 1999.
• Sharma, Parvez. "Burning down the house: The turmoil in India over Deepa Mehta's Fire." Trikone Magazine, vol. 14, no. 2, 1999.
• Sidhwa, Bapsi. "Playing with fire." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Ms., November-December 1997.
• Stackhouse, John. "Filmmaker unbowed by flak generated by movie: Deepa Mehta goes on TV in India to accuse opponents of acting like 'cultural police'." Globe and Mail, December 5, 1998.
• Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Fire." Review of Fire. New York Times, October 2, 1996, Late New York Edition.
• Wilkinson, Kathleen. "Filmmaker Deepa Mehta is on fire." Lesbian News, September 1997.

Dissertation Chapters

• Arora, Kulvinder. "The Mythology of Female Sexuality." In "Assimilation and Its Counter-Narratives: Twentieth-Century European and South Asian Immigrant Narratives to the United States," 185-229. PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2006.
• Kolluri, Satish Kumar. "Nationalism and the Subject of Sexuality." In "Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Nationalism and the Metaphorics of Secular Subjectivity," 90-115. PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002.
• Krishnamurti, Sailaja Vatsala. "Chapter 1." In "Boundaries on Fire: Hybridity and the Political Economy of Culture," 19-45. M.A. diss., University of Victoria, 2000.
• Mannur, Anita. "Feeding Desire: Food, Domesticity and Challenges to Hetero-Patriarchy." In "Culinary Scapes: Contesting Food, Gender and Nation in South Asia and Its Diaspora," 63-98. PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2002.

Earth (1998)  (also known as: "1947: Earth", "1947: Föld", "Jaettu maa", "Terre", "Ziemia")

Book Chapters

• Chadha, Simran. "Marginalised by Domesticity: The (Un) Desirable Women of Deepa Mehta's Trilogy - Fire, Earth and Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 85-99. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Chatterjee, Madhuri. "Women's Bodies, Women's Voices: Exploring Women's Sensuality in Deepa Mehta's Trilogy." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 75-84. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Fung, Amy. "Earth." In The Cinema of Canada, edited by Jerry White, 214-222. London: Wallflower, 2006.
• Jain, Jasbir. "The Diasporic Eye and the Evolving I: Deepa Media's Elements Trilogy." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 54-74. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Jodha, Avinash. "Packaging India: The Fabric of Deepa Mehta's Cinematic Art." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 39-53. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Mandal, Somdatta. "Re-Presenting the Partition of India: From Bapsi Sidhwa to Deepa Mehta." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 142-155. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Raisinghani, Neelam. "Wounded India in Deepa Mehta's 1947-Earth." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 156-167. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Shastri, Sudha. "Looking for Ways of Representation: 'Looking' as a Trope in 1947-Earth." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 128-141. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.

Brief Sections of Books

• Monk, Katherine. Weird Sex and Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001. (p. 291)

Journal Articles

• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, and Giacomo Lichtner. "Indian Cinema and the Presentist Use of History: Conceptions of 'Nationhood' in Earth and Lagaan." Asian Survey 48, no. 3 (2008): 431-452.
• Barenscott, Dorothy. "'This Is Our Holocaust': Deepa Mehta's Earth and the Question of Partition Trauma." Mediascape (Spring 2006).
• Budde, Robert. "The 'Valuable Deformity': Calipers and the Failed Trope of Postcolonial Debt in Deepa Mehta's Earth." Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques 17, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 44-51.
• Chowdhary, Reema, and Nirmala Menon. "Muslim Identity and Representation in Deepa Mehta's Earth and Abhishek Kapur's Kai Po Che." Postcolonial Text 11, no. 2 (2016).
• Gairola, Rahul K. "Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth." South Asian Review 39, no. 3-4 (October 2018): 283-297.
• Herman, Jeanette. "Memory and Melodrama: The Transnational Politics of Deepa Mehta's Earth." Camera Obscura 20, no. 1 58 (2005): 107-147.
• Majithia, Sheetal. "Rethinking Postcolonial Melodrama and Affect." Modern Drama 58, no. 1 (2015): 1-23.
• Neutill, Rani. "Bending Bodies, Borders and Desires in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Deepa Mehta's Earth." South Asian Popular Culture 8, no. 1 (April 2010): 73-87.
• Qureshi, Bilal. "The Discomforting Legacy of Deepa Mehta's Earth." Film Quarterly 70, no. 4 (2017): 77-82.
• Shailo, Iqbal. "Bollywood of India: Geopolitical Texts of Belonging and Difference and Narratives of Mistrust and Suspicion." CINEJ Cinema Journal 5, no. 2 (2016): 105-129.
• Uraizee, Joya. "Gazing at the Beast: Describing Mass Murder in Deepa Mehta's Earth and Terry George's Hotel Rwanda." Shofar 28, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 10-28.

Brief Sections of Journal Articles

• Bruschi, Isabella. "Making up with Painful History: The Partition of India in Bapsi Sidhwa's Work; Bapsi Sidhwa Interviewed by Isabella Bruschi." Interview with Bapsi Sidhwa. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 43, no. 3 (2008). (pp. 148-149)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Gonzalez-Ibbitson, Adrien. "Earth." Review of Earth. Séquences, November-December 1999. [in French]
• Kemp, Philip. "Earth." Review of Earth. Sight & Sound, June 2000.
• Klady, Leonard. "Earth." Review of Earth. Variety, October 12, 1998.

Dissertation Chapters

• Parmar, Prabhjot. "Cartographic Split, Sectarian Strife, and Desire for Peace: Deepa Mehta and Earth." In "Divided Land, Divided Bodies: Representations of Nationalism and Violence in Literature and Films on the Partition of India," 229-245. PhD diss., University of Western Ontario, 2007.

Bollywood/Hollywood (2002)  (also known as: "Bollywood Hollywood")

Book Chapters

• Gopinath, Gayatri. "Bollywood/Hollywood: Queer Cinematic Representation and the Perils of Translation." In Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures, 93-130. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
• Melnyk, George. "The Diasporic City: Post-Colonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001)." In Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema, 137-166. Edmonton: AU Press, 2014.

Brief Sections of Books

• Ray, Lisa. Close to the Bone. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2020. (pp. 119-124, 126)
• Ty, Eleanor. "Feminist Subversions: Comedy and the Carnivalesque." In Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. (pp. 76-86)

Journal Articles

• Fung, Amy. "Deepa Mehta's Canadian, American, Indian Bollywood Musical: Showing Canadians Their Country in Bollywood/Hollywood." London Journal of Canadian Studies 21 (2005/6): 71-82.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Dwyer, Rachel. "Bollywood/Hollywood." Review of Bollywood/Hollywood. Sight & Sound, April 2003.
• Elley, Derek. "Bollywood/Hollywood." Review of Bollywood/Hollywood. Variety, November 4, 2002.
• Honey, Kim. "Welcome to Bollywood North: Director Deepa Mehta is using Toronto as the backdrop for her film about Indians' search for identity in the West. Kim Honey watches the action on set." Globe and Mail, November 17, 2001.
• Lavoie, André. "Le mariage (indien) de l'année." Review of Bollywood/Hollywood. Le Devoir, October 26, 2002. [in French]
• Wise, Wyndham. "Bollywood north: An interview with Deepa Mehta." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Take One (Toronto), September-November 2002.

The Republic of Love (2003)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Hiller, Susanne. "Bittersweet love: Deepa Mehta took Carol Shields' ideas about romance to heart in adapting The Republic of Love. The author didn't get to see the finished film." Interview with Deepa Mehta. National Post, September 11, 2003.
• Howell, Peter. "A literary take on rules of attraction." Review of The Republic of Love. Toronto Star, February 13, 2004.
• Johnson, Brian D. "In the country of love." Review of The Republic of Love. Maclean's, February 16, 2004.
• Koehler, Robert. "The Republic of Love." Review of The Republic of Love. Variety, November 3, 2003.
• Tremblay, Odile. "Froide romance." Review of The Republic of Love. Le Devoir, February 14, 2004. [in French]

Let's Talk About It (2005)

Journal Articles

• Karpinski, Eva C. "Moments of Misrecognition: Violence against Women and the Multicultural Classroom." Canadian Woman Studies / Les Cahiers de la femme 27, no. 2/3 (Spring-Summer 2009): 63-67.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• MacDonald, Gayle. "'Alone in Canada, they don't call 911'; Deepa Mehta produces a searing documentary on abuse in immigrant families." Globe and Mail, October 22, 2005.

Water (2005)  (also known as: "Agua", "River Moon")

Books

• Saltzman, Devyani. Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005.
• Sidhwa, Bapsi. Water: A Novel Based on the Film by Deepa Mehta. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006.

Book Chapters

• Chadha, Simran. "Marginalised by Domesticity: The (Un) Desirable Women of Deepa Mehta's Trilogy - Fire, Earth and Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 85-99. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Chatterjee, Madhuri. "Women's Bodies, Women's Voices: Exploring Women's Sensuality in Deepa Mehta's Trilogy." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 75-84. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Gupta, Santosh. "Variations on a Theme: Water and Banaras." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 241-254. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Jain, Jasbir. "The Diasporic Eye and the Evolving I: Deepa Media's Elements Trilogy." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 54-74. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Jodha, Avinash. "Packaging India: The Fabric of Deepa Mehta's Cinematic Art." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 39-53. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Lall, Rama Rani. "Meaning Through Contrast: Colour and Image in Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 233-240. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Mahadevan, Uma. "Readings, Misreadings and Fundamentalist Readings: Reflections on the Making of Deepa Mehta's Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 168-176. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Mehta, Deepa. "Afterword." In Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film , by Devyani Saltzman, 269-270. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005.
• Mukherjee, Tutun. "Deepa Mehta's Film Water: Constructing the Dialectical Image." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 218-232. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Rai, Sudha. "The Diasporic Gaze: Deepa Mehta's and Bapsi Sidhwa's Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 201-217. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Sengupta, Jayita. "Gendered Subject(s) in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 100-118. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Shanker-Jain, Shamini. "Characterisation of Space as Home in Mehta's Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 177-188. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.
• Singh, Vijaya. "Exteriority, Space and Female Iconography in Deepa Mehta's Water." In Films, Literature, and Culture: Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy, edited by Jasbir Jain, 189-200. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2007.

Brief Sections of Books

• Ray, Lisa. Close to the Bone. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2020. (pp. 146-162, 185-189)
• Thornham, Sue. What If I Had Been the Hero?: Investigating Women's Cinema. London: Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2012. (pp. 142-147)

Journal Articles

• Banerjee, Chinmoy. "Deepa Mehta's Water: Selling the Mother in the Multicultural Market." West Coast Line 40, no. 4 (2007): 82-87.
• Bhandari, Dipali Sharma, and Deler Singh. "Parameters in Classification of Potential Anthropologically Relevant Data in Films: A Study Based on Fiction Film Water by Deepa Mehta and Documentary Film India's Daughter by Leslee Udwin." The Oriental Anthropologist 16, no. 1 (2016): 27-35.
• Burton, David F. "Fire, Water and The Goddess: The Films of Deepa Mehta and Satyajit Ray as Critiques of Hindu Patriarchy." Journal of Religion and Film 17, no. 2 (2013).
• Caldwell, Thomas. "River of Life and Death: Women, Religion, Power and Purity in Water." Screen Education, no. 64 (2012): 115-120.
• Chaudhuri, Shohini. "Snake Charmers and Child Brides: Deepa Mehta's Water, 'Exotic' Representation, and the Cross-Cultural Spectatorship of South Asian Migrant Cinema." South Asian Popular Culture 7, no. 1 (April 2009): 7-20.
• Courtney, Sheleyah A. "The Storm of Deepa's Water: From Violent Tempest in Varanasi to Glacial Account of Hindu Widowhood." Australian Journal of Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2007): 115-120.
• Khorana, Sukhmani. "'Water': Diasporic Cinema and the Transcendence of Genre." Screen Education, no. 60 (2010): 127-131.
• Lehmann, Courtney. "'An Élan of the Soul'? Counter-Cinema and Deepa Mehta's Water." Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship 34, no. 3 (2016): 433-450.
• Lehmann, Courtney. "Gender, Adaptation, and Justice." Literature/Film Quarterly 45, no. 2 (Spring 2017).
• Mason, Edwina. "The Water Controversy and the Politics of Hindu Nationalism." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 25, no. 3 (December 2002): 253-263.
• Mazid, Imran. "Between Violence and Exclusion: Cinematic Representation of Gender Politics in Antarmahal and Water." International Journal of Communication 12 (January 2018): 4802-4820.
• Mukherjee, Tutun. "Deepa Mehta's Film Water: The Power of the Dialectical Image." Canadian Journal of Film Studies / Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques 17, no. 2 (Autumn 2008): 35-47.
• Nijhawan, Amita. "Damning the Flow: Deepa Mehta's Water." M/C Journal 9, no. 4 (2006).

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Baudin, Brigitte. "Deepa Mehta, briseuse de tabous." Le Figaro, September 6, 2006, section Culture. [in French]
• Chipaux, Françoise. "Les extrémistes hindous contre le tournage de 'Water'." Le Monde, February 16, 2000. [in French]
• Cockrell, Eddie. "Water." Review of Water. Variety, September 26, 2005.
• Files, Gemma. "Distilling Water: Considering Mehta's masterpiece." Point of View: POV, no. 60, Summer 2005.
• Gravestock, Steve. "Deepa Mehta completes her celebrated elements trilogy with Water." Take One (Toronto), September-December 2005.
• Grenier, Pascal. "Water." Review of Water. Séquences, January-February 2006. [in French]
• Hopgood, Fincina. "The politics of melodrama in Deepa Mehta's 'Water'." Metro, no. 149, 2006.
• Johnson, Brian D. "Blazing a northern passage to India." Maclean's, February 5, 2007.
• Kemp, Philip. "Water." Review of Water. Sight & Sound, June 2007.
• Kulla, Bridget. "Why has 'Water' evaporated? The controversy over Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta." Off Our Backs, March-April 2002.
• Lacey, Liam. "Element of surprise: Director Deepa Mehta faced riots and death threats while shooting Water, which opens the Toronto International Film Festival tomorrow. Returning to Toronto afterward was 'the first time I truly felt like a Canadian'." Globe and Mail, September 7, 2005, Entertainment section.
• Lavoie, André. "Eaux troubles." Review of Water. Le Devoir, November 12, 2005. [in French]
• Lavoie, André. "La fin d'une épopée en trois temps : Entretien avec Deepa Mehta, réalisatrice du film Water." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Le Devoir, November 12, 2005. [in French]
• MacRae, Penny. "Mehta's Water opens in India." Globe and Mail, March 10, 2007.
• Marder, Ella. "L'épreuve des veuves." Review of Water. Libération, September 6, 2006. [in French]
• Mayer, Andre. "Digging Deepa: Canadian filmmaker shines with Water." CBC, November 3, 2005.
• Niogret, Hubert. "Water : Tout vient de l'eau." Review of Water. Positif, September 2006. [in French]
• Publishers Weekly. "Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking." Review of Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film, by Devyani Saltzman. Publishers Weekly, March 6, 2006.
• Roberts, Rex. "Water." Review of Water. Film Journal International, June 2006.
• Stone, Alan A. "A forbidden hope." Review of Water. Boston Review, September-October 2006.
• Wheeler, Brad. "Awash in Oscar glory: After enduring burning sets, death threats and violent protests, Deepa Mehta drinks in the success of her film, Brad Wheeler finds." Globe and Mail, February 20, 2007.
• Yuen-Carrucan, Jasmine. "The politics of Deepa Mehta's Water." Bright Lights Film Journal, April 2000.

Heaven on Earth (2008)  (also known as: "Le paradis sur terre", "Niebo na ziemi", "Yeryüzü cenneti")

Journal Articles

• Radia, Pavlina. "Co-Opted Cinderellas and the Transnational Fairy Tales of Globalization: Politicizing the Traffic in Bodily Harm in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth." Women's Studies 45, no. 8 (November 2016): 758-774.
• Răşcanu, Iulia. "Young Brides and Non-Resident Indians: Re-Interpreting the East/West; A Sad Story of 'Home' and 'Back Home' in Heaven on Earth, by Deepa Mehta." East-West Cultural Passage, no. 1 (2014): 219-238.
• Ridon, Manjeet. "Myth and Patriarchy in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth." International Journal of Punjab Studies 21, no. 2 (March 2014): 223-244.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Chaput, Luc. "Heaven on Earth." Review of Heaven on Earth. Séquences, November-December 2008. [in French]
• Dixon, Guy. "'We have no clue': Deepa Mehta confronts domestic abuse in immigrant communities in her new film, writes Guy Dixon." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Globe and Mail, September 9, 2008.
• Griffin, John. "Hidden violence hits home in Mehta's Heaven on Earth." Montreal Gazette, October 11, 2008.
• Khorana, Sukhmani. "Maps and movies: Talking with Deepa Mehta." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Bright Lights Film Journal, February 2009.
• Lévesque, François. "Entrevue : Deepa Mehta : Ouverture et imagination." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Le Devoir, October 25, 2008. [in French]
• Monk, Katherine. "Deepa Mehta: A woman who shows no fear." Vancouver Sun, October 4, 2008.
• Nicoud, Anabelle. "Heaven on Earth / Deepa Mehta : réalité désenchantée." La Presse, November 1, 2008. [in French]
• Sharma, Anita K. "Mehta looks to capture immigrant experience." Playback, September 1, 2008.
• Taylor, Lesley Ciarula. "Mehta's film resonates with Indian women; Spousal abuse 'happens everywhere'." Toronto Star, November 4, 2008.

Midnight's Children (2012)  (also known as: "Hijos de la medianoche", "I figli della mezzanotte", "Les enfants de minuit", "Mitternachtskinder", "Os Filhos da Meia-Noite", "Winds of Change")

Journal Articles

• De Zwaan, Victoria. "Experimental Fiction, Film Adaptation, and the Case of Midnight's Children: In Defense of Fidelity." Literature/Film Quarterly 43, no. 4 (2015): 246-261.
• Kuortti, Joel, and Ana Cristina Mendes. "Padma or No Padma: Audience in the Adaptations of Midnight's Children." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52, no. 3 (September 2017): 501-518.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Cassivi, Marc. "Peu convaincant." Review of Midnight's Children. La Presse, November 10, 2012. [in French]
• Émond-Ferrat, Jessica. "Enfants de la patrie." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Métro (Montréal), November 9, 2012. [in French]
• Lavoie, André. "Leur vie n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille." Review of Midnight's Children. Le Devoir, November 10, 2012. [in French]
• Tremblay, Odile. "Salman Rushdie fait son cinéma : Le film de Deepa Mehta recrée la magie des enfants fantômes du roman Midnight's Children." Interview with Salman Rushdie. Le Devoir, November 3, 2012. [in French]

Beeba Boys (2015)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Bailey, Ian. "Beeba Boys: A gangster movie with a B.C. twist; Beeba Boys puts the focus on Indo-Canadian gangs, but former gang members and police say the film strays far from reality." Globe and Mail, September 25, 2015.
• Barker, Andrew. "'Beeba Boys'; Deepa Mehta's Canadian Sikh gangster comedy is a unique change of pace, but misfires at too many crucial moments." Review of Beeba Boys. Variety, September 14, 2015.
• Dore, Shalini. "Toronto: Deepa Mehta's 'Beeba Boys' explores grimy side of immigrant experience." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Variety, September 13, 2015.
• Gillmor, Alison. "Indo-Canadian gangster flick has lots of style, no substance." Review of Beeba Boys. Winnipeg Free Press, October 16, 2015.
• Howell, Peter. "5 questions for Beeba Boys director Deepa Mehta." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Toronto Star, October 16, 2015.
• Howell, Peter. "Beeba Boys swaggering with style—and blood: review." Review of Beeba Boys. Toronto Star, October 16, 2015.
• Knight, Chris. "And now for something completely different; Beeba Boys is as strong as it is weak, but unlike anything you've ever seen." Review of Beeba Boys. Calgary Herald, October 16, 2015.
• Marchand, François. "Gangland Style; Beeba boys takes the heat to the streets of Vancouver." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Vancouver Sun, September 25, 2015.
• Porter, Ryan. "Dressed to kill; Waris Ahluwalia plays a vicious gangster in Beeba Boys and brings his signature flair and style to the festival." Interview with Waris Ahluwalia. Toronto Star, September 13, 2015.
• Slotek, Jim. "Deepa Mehta goes gangster; Canadian director looks at immigrant experience from the criminal side in new drama Beeba Boys." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Edmonton Sun, October 15, 2015.
• Szklarski, Cassandra. "Director Deepa Mehta tackles gangster film with Beeba Boys." Hamilton Spectator, October 7, 2015.
• Taylor, Kate. "Beeba Boys: Deepa Mehta drags down film glamorizing Sikh organized crime; Beeba Boys is hampered by Deepa Mehta's ham-fisted direction and painful dialogue, as well as actors who are unsure in the roles." Review of Beeba Boys. Globe and Mail, October 16, 2015.
• Volmers, Eric. "Mehta delves into a theme of violence; Filmmaker also explores identity and racism." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Calgary Herald, January 30, 2016.
• Wheeler, Brad. "Beeba Boys: Sikh mob film director Deepa Mehta is a 'gangster'; Mehta's Beeba Boys is an unhesitant first step into gangland fare, part of an oeuvre built on marginalized groups and the search for voice and identity." Globe and Mail, October 15, 2015.

Anatomy of Violence (2016)

Journal Articles

• Barn, Ravinder, and Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram. "Performativity of Rape Culture Through Fact and Fiction: An Exploration of India's Daughter and Anatomy of Violence." International Journal of Cultural Studies 23, no. 6 (November 2020): 879-897.

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Bhattacharyya, Anirudh. "Deepa Mehta's film on December 16 Delhi gangrape to be screened in Toronto." Hindustan Times (New Delhi), August 4, 2016.
• DeMara, Bruce. "Anatomy of Violence examines roots of rape." Review of Anatomy of Violence. Toronto Star, November 27, 2016.
• Hassannia, Tina. "Root cause, savage effect." Review of Anatomy of Violence. National Post, November 25, 2016.
• Houpt, Simon. "Anatomy of Violence is strange, impressionistic and often hard to watch; With no artificial lighting and no music, the microbudgeted film is a radical departure from Mehta's previous body of work and its studied, resplendent aesthetic." Review of Anatomy of Violence. Globe and Mail, November 25, 2016.
• Houpt, Simon. "Mask of infamy." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Globe and Mail, September 9, 2016.
• India Today. "Behind the making of a monster." Interview with Deepa Mehta. India Today, March 20, 2017.
• Sahani, Alaka. "I feel a responsibility for what my work says about the world." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Indian Express (New Delhi), October 22, 2016.
• Tobias, Scott. "'Anatomy of Violence'; Deepa Mehta examines a shocking assault and rape case via experimental strategies that ultimately distract from her important subject." Review of Anatomy of Violence. Variety, September 21, 2016.
• Trehan, Madhu. "Deepa Mehta's film on Dec 16 rapists' lives raises many disturbing questions." Hindustan Times (New Delhi), November 3, 2016.
• Volmers, Eric. "Mehta delves into a theme of violence; Filmmaker also explores identity and racism." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Calgary Herald, January 30, 2016.

Funny Boy (2020)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Belliappa, Shruti. "Deepa Mehta on combining queer awakening and war in Funny Boy." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Financial Times (London), December 8, 2020.
• Brown, Tracy. "Funny Boy an ambitious story of growing up gay and Tamil in Sri Lanka." Review of Funny Boy. Victoria Times Colonist, December 18, 2020.
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "Funny Boy chosen as Canada's Oscars submission for best international film." CBC, October 29, 2020.
• Clarke, Cath. "Funny Boy review: Sri Lankan rites-of-passage tale clashes with political reality." Review of Funny Boy. Guardian, December 10, 2020.
• Dry, Jude. "Funny Boy review: A gorgeous queer coming-of-age tale set in a divided Sri Lanka." Review of Funny Boy. IndieWire, December 10, 2020.
• Friend, David. "Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy no longer eligible for international film Oscar; Film falls short of non-English language requirements, says Telefilm Canada." CBC, December 18, 2020.
• Gee, Dana. "Road to new role in Mehta film started long ago; Actor inspired by filmmaker now featured in Funny Boy." Interview with Agam Darshi. The Province (Vancouver), December 3, 2020.
• Hassannia, Tina. "Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy is both powerful and problematic." Review of Funny Boy. Globe and Mail, November 26, 2020.
• Kenigsberg, Ben. "Coming out in the midst of civil war." Review of Funny Boy. New York Times, December 11, 2020.
• Konerman, Jennifer. "Funny Boy: Film review." Review of Funny Boy. Hollywood Reporter, December 8, 2020.
• Lodge, Guy. "'Funny Boy' review: Canada's engaging Oscar submission chronicles gay self-discovery amid political upheaval." Review of Funny Boy. Variety, December 10, 2020.
• Lussier, Marc-André. "Funny Boy : Parfois puissant, parfois trop appuyé." Review of Funny Boy. La Presse, December 4, 2020. [in French]
• Ramachandran, Naman. "Funny Boy watches Sri Lanka's battle lines from the social uplands." Review of Funny Boy. Sight & Sound, December 11, 2020.
• Ramos, Dino-Ray. "ARRAY acquires Deepa Mehta's adaptation of 'Funny Boy', filmmaker talks women of color taking award season spotlight." Interview with Deepa Mehta. Deadline, October 15, 2020.
• Ravindran, Manori. "Ava DuVernay's ARRAY Releasing buys Deepa Mehta's 'Funny Boy,' with Netflix launch set for December." Variety, October 15, 2020.
• Romney, Jonathan. "Funny Boy: Review (Netflix)." Review of Funny Boy. Screen International, December 8, 2020.
• Simonpillai, Radheyan. "Funny Boy elicits love and anger from the Tamil diaspora: Funny Boy director Deepa Mehta and author Shyam Selvadurai join NOW's roundtable to confront issues of casting and Tamil erasure in their film." Now (Toronto), November 24, 2020.
• Tangcay, Jazz. "How a handheld camera helped 'Funny Boy' DP Douglas Koch capture the space and light of Sri Lanka turmoil." Interview with Douglas Koch. Variety, January 14, 2021.

I Am Sirat (2023)

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

• Smith, Briony. "Her TIFF 2023 movie is radiant with trans joy. She just hopes her mother will see it." Toronto Star, September 10, 2023.
• Thompson, Nicole. "Deepa Mehta's documentary 'I Am Sirat' allows subject Sirat Taneja to be seen." Globe and Mail, September 14, 2023.

Archival Collections

• Cinemathèque québécoise (Montréal, Québec)
• Special Collections, Film Reference Library (Toronto, Ontario)
• Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)