Films of Deepa Mehta, brother to be premiered

TORONTO : Renowned Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta has addressed the Delhi gangrape of 2012 December in a film that will premiere at the Toronto International

TORONTO : Renowned Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta has addressed the Delhi gangrape of 2012 December in a film that will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September.

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“Anatomy Of Violence” will be showcased in the Masters section of the festival. TIFF described it as a “devastating fictional dramatisation of the lives of the rapists.”

“‘What makes monsters?’ is a question that this film stares directly at. It probes and explores where these young men could have come from and what might have motivated them,” the filmmakers said.

The film is an attempt to “imagine what might have driven these men towards such a savage assault. The film also imagines the nature of the young woman’s life, her family, her friends and her hopes and dreams before the fatal attack,” they said. The 93-minute feature in Hindi has an ensemble cast that includes Indian actress Seema Biswas, Indo-Canadian actress Tia Bhatia and Indian actor Vansh Bhardwaj.

Coincidentally, this year’s edition of TIFF features the world premiere of a documentary by Deepa Mehta’s brother Dilip “Mostly Sunny” on Canadian porn star-turned-Bollywood actress Sunny Leone.

TIFF noted that the documentary “asks what makes Sunny tick, and explores the birthplace of the Kama Sutra’s paradoxical relationship with sex”. Dilip Mehta was elated that, for the first time, both siblings have a film premiering at the same festival. His sister has been a regular and honoured participant at TIFF.