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Film Review: Heaven on Earth


September 09, 2008 TORONTO - Deepa Mehta's latest film, "Heaven on Earth," could easily have settled for being a domestic melodrama about marital abuse in the Punjabi community in her adopted city of Toronto. But instead the Indian-born writer-director moves into the realm of the imagination and magic realism to concoct a strong artistic statement about the powers of the mind. Bollywood star Preity Zinta - who certainly won't hurt the film's penetration with its target audience - plays a young woman who travels from India to Toronto for an arranged marriage thrown together in too much haste.

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