Editing Deepa Mehta (section)

==Early life==
Mehta was born in [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009495 |title=The Canadian Encyclopedia bio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204022316/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009495 |archive-date=4 December 2008}}</ref> near the militarized border of Pakistan and experienced firsthand the impacts brought forth by the [[Partition of India]].<ref name="Qureshi 80">{{Cite journal|last=Qureshi|first=Bilal|date=1 June 2017|title=ElsewhereThe Discomforting Legacy of Deepa Mehta's Earth|url=https://online.ucpress.edu/fq/article/70/4/77/110012/ElsewhereThe-Discomforting-Legacy-of-Deepa-Mehta-s|journal=Film Quarterly|language=en|volume=70|issue=4|pages=80|doi=10.1525/fq.2017.70.4.77|issn=0015-1386|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She describes learning about warfare from citizens of [[Lahore]], stating "Even when I was growing up in Amritsar, we used to go every weekend to Lahore, so I just grew up around people who talked about it incessantly and felt it was one of the most horrific sectarian wars they knew of."<ref name="Qureshi 80"/>

Her family moved to [[New Delhi]] while she was still a child, and her father worked as a film distributor. Subsequently, Mehta attended [[Welham Girls High School]], boarding school in [[Dehradun]] on the foothills of Himalayas.<ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref> She graduated from the [[Lady Shri Ram College for Women]], [[University of Delhi]] with a degree in [[Philosophy]].<ref name="ma" />

Mehta notes how her reception to film transformed and changed as she got older and was exposed to different types of cinema, which ultimately influenced her to become a filmmaker herself. She states:

"When I was growing up in Delhi and I went to university in Delhi, I used to watch [Indian] films. I grew up with a very healthy dose of Indian commercial cinema. My father was a film distributor, so from a very young age I saw commercial Indian cinema. But once I went to university, or even my last year of school, I really started watching and enjoying [[Satyajit Ray]] and [[Ritwik Ghatak]] and had exposure to non-Hindi cinema and non-Hollywood cinema. At university, I was also exposed to directors like [[François Truffaut|Truffaut]] and [[Jean-Luc Godard|Godard]]. There was also intense exposure to Japanese cinema. So, [[Yasujirō Ozu|Ozu]], [[Kenji Mizoguchi|Mizoguchi]]."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Khorana|first=Sukhmani|date=1 January 2009|title=Maps and movies: talking with Deepa Mehta|url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/asdpapers/388|journal=Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers|pages=5}}</ref>