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Heaven on Earth (2008/I)
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Deepa Mehta (writer)
Release Date:
24 October 2008 (Canada) more
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2 wins & 4 nominations more
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Actress Preity Zinta heads to Harvard Business School
(From The Bollywood Ticket. 12 November 2009, 1:48 PM, PST)
Multiplexes in doldrums with all Bollywood releases being washouts - News
(From GlamSham. 12 April 2009, 11:30 AM, PDT)
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Excruciating and Beautiful more (11 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Preity Zinta | ... | Chand |
 | Balinder Johal | ... | Maji |
| Rajinder Singh Cheema | ... | Papaji |
| Gourrav Sihan | ... | Baldev |
| Vansh Bhardwaj | ... | Rocky |
| Geetika Sharma | ... | Loveleen |
| Orville Maciel | ... | Kabir |
| Ramanjit Kaur | ... | Aman |
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| Gick Grewal | ||
| Indiana Jagait | ... | Supervisor |
| Yanna McIntosh | ||
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Canada:106 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Heaven on Earth is both excruciating and incredibly beautiful. It's this juxtaposition, along with the magical realism, that pulls us in, chains us to our seats, keeps our eyes and ears open, and exposes our hearts to the intensity of the situation. It opens us to Chand's vulnerability and strength, and commands us to be vulnerable and strong in turn.
The story is told elsewhere, so I won't talk about it here. Preity's performance is amazing, and she deserves any award she gets for this. And everyone else in the cast is also terrific. Like all Mehta's film's, it's literate, beautifully shot and edited, and takes on an issue no one really wants to talk about, let alone see up on a big screen.
While it might not be for everyone, Heaven on Earth is for those with the heart and strength to bare the onslaught of Chand's suffering and her escapes into imagination. The film has stayed with me since I saw it about a month ago. I hope it always does.