Filmmaker Deepa Mehta with actress Huma Qureshi.

Award-winning filmmaker Deepa Mehta is directing the web series Leila, starring Huma Qureshi, for Netflix. It will start telecasting in 2019. Deepa Mehta, who is known for critically acclaimed trilogy Fire, Earth and Water, will also serve as the creative executive producer for the show. The series will be directed by Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar. Deepa co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband and producer David Hamilton in 1996. In May 2012, Mehta received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada’s highest honor in the performing arts.