Deepa Mehta, a Canada based Indian filmmaker has almost completed her long drawn ambition of coming up with a movie, an adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker prize winning controversial novel “Midnight’s Childrenâ€. The movie hit India’s big screen in the first week of February 2013.
For Deepa Mehta it was one of the most ambitious projects of all and was also no less than an honor for getting an opportunity to make a film of such a high acclaim. She was a lot delightful to realize that she had finally made it and the movie is finally released in India for the audiences to watch.
The book Midnight’s Children which is an example of postcolonial literature and magical realism was written by Salman Rushdie back in the year 1980. This novel which is no less than a historical fiction was awarded the Booker prize for the exceptional story borne by it. To gather more details about the novel buy content online.
This book which was published 30 years back, its adaptation is now being turned into a movie. The exceptionally brave filmmaker Deepa Mehta was absolutely thrilled to get the chance of making a movie on the adaptation of this prize winning novel.
As the story of Midnight’s Children involved a lot of narration, Deepa tried two actors but in the end asked Salman to lend a voice over. Salman states that it was a lot flattering to get an offer to narrate his own novel on the big screen but he was a lot nervous about spoiling the movie.
The author who is 65 has also turned into a script writer as the script of the movie Midnight’s Children directed by Deepa Mehta is written by him. He stated that the decision to have his voice over came late. He had never thought of being a narrator of his own novel. He was not at all willing to do it but it was Deepa who wanted him to go with the narration.
They finally thought of making the movie without a narration but when they got down to assemble the film they felt a sensitive need of Rushdie’s voice over. Finally the author had to lend his voice to the film which finally turned into a complete and presentable piece. Buy images online of the movie to know its further details.
The movie has an extraordinary star cast including brilliant artists like Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Siddharth, Ronit Roy, Rahul Bose, Darsheel Safary and Soha Ali Khan. When Rushdie was asked about his experience of being a part of the film he gladly stated that it was truly and interesting journey in itself.
Making of the film was no less than a life time experience and he was a lot keen to come with more such adaptations with the fearless writer Deepa Mehta. To gather more details about this story and other related issues, buy news articles online.
