Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children - Adaptation to Script and Deepa Mehta’s Movie-An Artistic Failure

Abstract

Midnight’s Children (1981) is a Salman Rushdie’s novel and its British-Canadian film adaptation appeared in 2012 with a screenplay by Rushdie and directed by Deepa Mehta. The film shooting began in Colombo in February 2011 and was concluded in May 2011 with cast of Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan, Ronit Roy, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary. The film was shown at various Film festivals and was a nominee for Best Picture and seven other categories at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, winning two awards. Rushdie cut down the 600- page book into a 130-page script. (Nolen, Stephanie)