Bapsi Sidhwa: author. essayist. playwright.

Film and Theater

Theater

 

an american brat

Year of Release: 2007
Director: Brad Dalton

Adapted from the novel An American Brat and produced by Stages
Repertoire Theater in Houston 2007, this play explored the tensions that arise in a Parsi family when their daughter Feroza leaves Pakistan to attend college in the United States.

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  Sock ‘em With Honey

Year of Release: 2003
Director: Janet Steel

The play Sock’em with Honey is an adaptation of An American Brat by the internationally recognized writer, Bapsi Sidhwa, and was produced in London by the Kali Theater in 2003. It played in Leister Haymarket and in London in 2003.

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Film

 

EARTH

Year of Release:1998
Director: Deepa Mehta
Writers: Deepa Mehta (writer) Bapsi Sidhwa (novel)
Runtime: 110 min

Adapted from the novel Cracking India (also titled Ice-Candy-Man) by Bapsi Sidhwa, Earth won the Grand Prize at the Deauville Panasian Film Festival in France. The London magazine TIMEOUT hails Earth as one of the top ten films of 1999.

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WATER

Year of Release: 2005
Director: Deepa Mehta
Writers: Deepa Mehta (writer), Anurag Kashyap (dialogue)
Runtime: 117 min

The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. Nominated for Oscar and several other awards.

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