--- title: 'Earth (1998)' type: 'film' director: 'Deepa Mehta' released: '1998-01-01' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' - 'War' - 'Romance' countries: - 'Canada' - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/earth-1998' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150433/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Earth (1998) 1998 · 110 min · Drama, War, Romance · Canada, India Original title: 1947: Earth Part of: Elements trilogy ## Synopsis Earth is a 1998 Indo-Canadian period romance drama film directed by Deepa Mehta. It is based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, set during the 1947 partition of India. Earth is the second instalment of Mehta's Elements trilogy, preceded by Fire (1996) and followed by Water (2005). It was India's entry for the 1999 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ## Credits - **Screenplay:** [Bapsi Sidhwa](https://cinepixo.com/people/bapsi-sidhwa), [Deepa Mehta](https://cinepixo.com/people/deepa-mehta) - **Director:** [Deepa Mehta](https://cinepixo.com/people/deepa-mehta) - **Producer:** [Deepa Mehta](https://cinepixo.com/people/deepa-mehta) - **Original Music Composer:** [A. R. Rahman](https://cinepixo.com/people/a-r-rahman) - **Director of Photography:** [Giles Nuttgens](https://cinepixo.com/people/giles-nuttgens) ## Cast - [Shabana Azmi](https://cinepixo.com/people/shabana-azmi) - [Rahul Khanna](https://cinepixo.com/people/rahul-khanna) - [Bapsi Sidhwa](https://cinepixo.com/people/bapsi-sidhwa) - [Raghubir Yadav](https://cinepixo.com/people/raghubir-yadav) - [Arif Zakaria](https://cinepixo.com/people/arif-zakaria) - [Rajendra Kumar](https://cinepixo.com/people/rajendra-kumar) - [Kitu Gidwani](https://cinepixo.com/people/kitu-gidwani) - [Rahul Ram](https://cinepixo.com/people/rahul-ram) - [Maia Sethna](https://cinepixo.com/people/maia-sethna) - [Eric Peterson](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-peterson) - [Aamir Khan](https://cinepixo.com/people/aamir-khan) - [Gulshan Grover](https://cinepixo.com/people/gulshan-grover) - [Kulbhushan Kharbanda](https://cinepixo.com/people/kulbhushan-kharbanda) - [Nandita Das](https://cinepixo.com/people/nandita-das) - [Javed Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/javed-jaffrey) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/earth-1998 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2561440); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.