Actress Preity Zinta arrives at the “Heaven On Earth” premiere during the 2008 Toronto Internation Film Festival. Deepa Mehta was in attendance with her whole cast, including Preity Zinta for the screening on Saturday.
Preity, who is currently touring with the Bachchans on their ‘Unforgettable’ tour, plays the leading role of a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by Vansh Bhardwaj.
Deepa Mehta’s next movie “Heaven On Earth” is to be screened at the Toronto Film Festival on 6 September at the prestigious Elgin theatre. Enjoy Preity Zinta’s photocall pictures from Toronto Film Festival for “Heaven On Earth”.
The dimpled damsel Preity plays a battered Punjabi housewife in Canada who is a victim of domestic violence In ‘Heaven On Earth’. Heaven on Earth is a forthcoming Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Deepa Mehta penned the screenplay in 2007. She met Preity Zinta at the 2007 International Indian Film Academy Awards and offered her the role of a Punjabi houswife. Initially, Zinta could not commit to the project because of dates problems but they have been worked out and Zinta signed the film.
Sounds similar to Provoked ? Deepa Mehta says her film is very different from the one starring Aishwarya Rai .
Saturday 02 August 2008, the day of the show in Houston, as Bollywood Day and his representative presented proclamations of the same to the Unforgettable Stars – Amitabh Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Vishal, Shekhar and Wizcraft Director, Wiz Viraf Sarkari today at a press conference held in Houston.
With the tour seeing unprecedented success in Toronto, Trinidad, Los Angeles and San Francisco and now Houston show.
This Indian Cinema spectacle brings together the greatest icons of Indian Cinema: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Riteish Deshmukh and the music director duo Vishal-Shekhar in a spectacular production.
The Unforgettable Tour after Houston moving on to 3 more cities in U.S before reaching UK, Holland and Germany!
