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.
Plot
Vibrant and irrepressibly alive, Chand (
Preity Zinta) is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana,Punjab India, for Brampton, Ontario, where her husband Rocky (
Vansh Bhardwaj) and his very traditional family await her arrival. Everything is new to Chand, everything is unfamiliar 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 her new 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.