Deepa mehta’s film adaptation of Midnights children is a great attempt to bring close salman rushdie’s historical fiction to many a audience who have not had the opportunity to read the book but who always yearned to do so! It is a good peek into what Rushdie wants to tell us about the countries that set out on a journey of sovereignty powered by midnight freedom.
It’s not possible to fit the vast 600 pages into two and a half hours of screenplay. Deepa mehta as the director and Salman rushdie who adapted his own book into a movie screenplay have taken up a huge task and one has to say, they succeeded.
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