03 Nov / Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film by Devyani Saltzman, afterword by Deepa Mehta [in AsianWeek and The Bloomsbury Review]
The turbulent mother-daughter relationship between world-renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta and her photographer/journalist daughter is interwoven into a fascinating account of how Mehta’s latest film, Water, came to be. As the final installment of Mehta’s highly controversial Elements trilogy – Fire, Earth, and Water – this film took five years to make, with Mehta and crew surviving violent protests (including effigy burnings and even a hired suicide specialist) in India to finally complete the film in a secret location in Sri Lanka. Both book and film are the noteworthy results of a monumental struggle.
Reviews: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, November 3, 2005
“In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Literary Survey,” The Bloomsbury Review, May/June 2006
“TBR‘s Contributing Editors’ Favorite Reads of 2006: These Are a Few of My Favorite Things … in Print, That Is …,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2006
Tidbit: Devyani Saltzman was a guest at SALTAF 2006 (South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival), a much-anticipated, highly-attended annual fall event sponsored by the Smithsonian APA Program and NetSAP-DC.
Readers: Young Adult, Adult
Published: 2005 (United States, with slightly revised subtitle from original Canadian edition)