New Delhi: Midnight's Children is a Deepa Mehta film adapted from a bestselling novel of the same name written by Salman Rushdie in 1980. The film is set around the partition of India and has a long list of star cast: Shriya Saran, Satya Bhabha, Siddharth Narayan, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Anita Majumdar and Darsheel Safary.
Saleem Sanai, played by Satya Bhabha is born at the exact time of India's independence, August 15, 1947 midnight. As he grows older, he discovers that he has telepathic powers and an extremely strong sense of smell. Not just him, but all births that took place between 12 am to 1 am on August 16, were gifted with special powers.
In the light of the country's newfound independence, and the challenges that came along, Saleem summons all the children born at that specific time to determine each others' powers.
Watch the trailer of Deepa Mehta\'s \'Midnight\'s Children\' adapted from Salman Rushdie\'s bestselling novel.
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Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. ...
Deepa Mehta (Hindi: दीपा मेहता) (born 1 January 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab, India) [1] is a Genie Award winning and Academy Award nominated Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter. Deepa Mehta's films focus around ...
Shriya痴 parents are Pushpendra Saran and Neeraja. She hails from Delhi and has one elder brother, Abhiroop. Shriya was educated at Delhi Public School and later on got her degree from Lady Shri Ram College (LSR)She began her career as a mode ...
appeared in nearly 450 films and 100 plays, Anupam Kherpassed out of National School of Drama, Delhi, in the year 1978. His father Pushkar Nath Kher was a clerk with the forest department and mother Dulari, a housewife. His brother Raju is als ...
Shabana Azmi’s father was renowned poet Kaifi Azmi and her mother Shaukat Azmi is a Urdu writer who is also a stage actress. Her brother, Baba Azmi, is a cinematographer. In December 1984 she is married to noted scriptwriter and lyricist ...
Seema Biswas (Hindi: सीमा बिस्वास, Assamese: সীমা বিশ্বাস) (born January 14, 1965) is an Indian film and theatre actress from Assam who shot into prominence with the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar K ...
Shahana had her early education at the Sardar Patel Vidyalya, Delhi and later she studied at the Sophia College in Mumbai. Her father Omkar Goswami is an economist. Shahana spent two years in America when he was a faculty member at Rutgers uni ...
He was an advertising copywriter with Rediffusion before he turned to acting. With the film adaptation of Upamanyu Chatterjee's book English August, Bose made his debut on the big screen in 1994.
Ever since then he has acted in over two ...
He is one of the contestants of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa: Season 5.In 2007, Safary made his acting debut in Taare Zameen Par, playing the film's protagonist Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi. Safary was discovered by script writer and creative directo ...
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