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Heaven on Earth is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Deepa Mehta released in USA on 6 september 2008 with Preity Zinta

Heaven on Earth (2008)

Heaven on Earth
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Released in USA 6 september 2008
Length 1h46
Directed by
OriginCanada
Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.146643.146643.146643.146643.14664

This article is about the 2008 Canadian film. For the 1927 film, see Heaven on Earth (1927 film). For other films with the same title, see Heaven on Earth.

Heaven on Earth a.k.a. Videsh is a 2008 Canadian film directed and written by Deepa Mehta. Preity Zinta plays the leading role of Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man, played by theatre actor Vansh Bhardwaj. The film released in India dubbed into Hindi under the title Videsh.

Synopsis

Vibrant Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, for Brampton, Ontario, Canada, where her husband Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj) and his very traditional family await her arrival. Everything is new and unfamiliar to Chand including the quiet and shy Rocky who she meets for the first time at the Arrivals level of Pearson Airport. Chand approaches her new life and land with equanimity and grace, and at times the wide-eyed optimism of hope—her first snowfall is a tiny miracle of beauty, and the roar of Niagara Falls creates the excitement of new beginnings.

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