Deepa Mehta plans $10m English-language historical drama

By 2002-07-10T04:05:00

Toronto-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta (pictured) is planning to make a $10m English-language feature about the 1914 epic journey by Punjabi immigrants from India to Canada and back on a ship named the Komagata Maru.

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