Asian Canadian Films (Film Guide) - Films Directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, Films Directed by Ishu Patel, Heaven on Earth, Up the Yangtze, Bol (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Films Directed by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal, Films Directed by Ishu Patel, Heaven on Earth, up the Yangtze, Bollywood/hollywood, Iron Road, Bombay Calling, Double Happiness, Minoru: Memory of Exile, Skin Deep, Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity, the Tree That Remembers, Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square, How Death Came to Earth, Afterlife, Flutter, Unwanted Soldiers, Discordia, Moving the Mountain, Nollywood Babylon, Sleeping Tigers: the Asahi Baseball Story. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Afterlife is a 1978 animated short by Ishu Patel that takes an impressionistic look at life after death . Based on recent studies, case histories and myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as a working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Produced by Derek Lamb for the National Film Board of Canada, this film without words received numerous awards including a Golden Sheaf Award, a Genie Award for Best Animated Film and the award for Best short Film from the Montreal World Film Festival . Music is by Herbie Mann . References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Bollywood/Hollywood Bollywood/Hollywood is a 2002 film by Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta . It is lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented in nature, as opposed to Mehta's other films (most notably her Elements Trilogy of Fire, Earth, and Water ), which feature very serious themes and focus on social issues.The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at Bollywood (the film features several Bollywood-style song-and-dance numbers). Bollywood actor Akshaye Khanna (the brother of Rahul Khanna) makes a special guest appearance in the movie.Plot The film centres around the character of Rahul Seth (Rahul Khanna ), a you...