Deepa Mehta is the Brightest

Award-winning director Deepa Mehta, whose film 'Water' was short-listed for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category, will be honoured at the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) as the brightest Indian director abroad.

Deepa Mehta's "Water", has a really moral theme. The Film is set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, an 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents, including a young widow, who falls for a Gandhian idealist.

Such Directors are a need to the Nation, where Films with Morals are seldom made.