Film : Midnight’s
Children
Director : Deepa Mehta
Starring : Satya
Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema
Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Anita
Majumdar and Darsheel Safary.
Synopsis: "Born
in the hour of India's freedom. Handcuffed to history." Midnight's
Children is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on
the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie. At the stroke of midnight on
August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two
newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the
illegitimate son of a poor woman, and Shiva, the offspring of a wealthy couple,
are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. Their lives become
mysteriously intertwined and are inextricably linked to India's whirlwind
journey of triumphs and disasters.
From the unlikely
romance of Saleem's grandparents to the birth of his own son, Midnight's
Children is a journey at once sweeping in scope and yet intimate in tone.
Hopeful, comic and magical – the film conjures images and characters as rich
and unforgettable as India herself.
Midnight’s Children
has received good reviews from the critics abroad :
“This adaptation of
Salman Rushdie’s novel turns into an absorbing story with a strong emotional
core” – NowToronto.com
“Deepa Mehta creates a
consistently dreamlike feel for the experience, allowing one scene to
formlessly melt into the next” – Vancouver Sun
“Deepa Mehta has
crafted an epic, visually pleasing tale weaving politics, colourful splendour,
epic love and magic with her most ambitious film till date” – Toronto Star
PVR Pictures will be
releasing Midnight’s Children on 1st February 2013 all over India.
Here’s the trailer
link: http://bit.ly/MidnightsChildrenTrailer
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