Canadian-based filmmaker Deepa Mehta was born in Amritsar, a city on India's border with Pakistan, in 1949. Mehta attended Welham Girls High School and received a bachelors and masters degree in philosophy from the University of New Delhi, where she met her husband, Canadian filmmaker and producer Paul Saltzman. Shortly after getting married, she immigrated to Canada in 1973. However, the marriage was short lived, and they divorced. She has one daughter, Devyani. Because her father was a film distributor and theater owner, Mehta grew up on movies. After school she would go there with friends and watch movies for free, not realizing she had a serious interest in films until after finishing her education. She was about to do her dissertation for her PhD, when she met a friend ...By Kiran» read full biography