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. Vibrant Chand is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana,Punjab India, for Brampton, Ontario, where her husband Rocky 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. But soon optimism turns to isolation as the family she has inherited struggles beneath the weight of unspoken words, their collective frustration becoming palpable. No one feels the pressure more than Rocky, weighed down by familial obligations.
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| Release date: | 2008 |
| Directed by: | Deepa Mehta |
| Runtime: | 106 Minutes |
| Producer: | Deepa Mehta, Ravi Chopra, David Hamilton |
| Music by: | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography: | Giles Nuttgens |
| Screenplay by: | Deepa Mehta |