Nitin Sawhney, who has composed music for Deepa Mehta's 'Midnight's Children' is in India to perform for the first time. ...
05:23 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Mumbai: Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, who is making a film on Salman Rushdie's bestseller 'Midnight's Children', says the author was lied to and discouraged from attending the Jaipur Literature Festival. But she is confident that she would be able to release the movie without any trouble in India. Excerpts from an interview: Q: Your friend and creative collaborator Salman Rushdie was not allowed to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival....
11:49 AM, Feb 03, 2012
Darsheel Safary will next be seen in Deepa Mehta's 'Midnight's Children' with Shabana Azmi. ...
01:55 PM, Aug 12, 2011
A few weeks ago Canadian-Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta and her producer husband David Hamilton completed principal photography on Midnight's Children, the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's iconic novel. The film is scheduled for release in late 2012. Reading Stephanie Molen's location report from Sri Lanka, published in the Globe and Mail, I confess I was initially both fascinated and also a little alarmed. It described, among other things, seven cobras...
03:38 PM, Jul 07, 2011
Toronto: India-born Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta has finished shooting for the first film adaption of controversial author Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel 'Midnight's Children' at a secret location in Sri Lanka to keep the fundamentalists at bay. The filming had to be kept ultra-secret, hidden away in Sri Lanka instead of India or Pakistan as both the director and writer of the film are controversial figures. "He's got the Muslims....and I've...
06:38 PM, May 19, 2011
Mumbai: Nandita Das has opted out of old friend Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children because she feels it would difficult for her to cope up with her duties as an actress and as a mother. "I am not doing the film! With little Vihaan, who is six months old now and sooooo delightful. I didn't think I would have been able to do justice to both the roles and would have...
08:05 PM, Feb 24, 2011
New Delhi: Deepa Mehta's much awaited film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning novel 'Midnight's Children' will be called 'Winds of Change'. The film, starring Irrfan Khan, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi and Soha Ali Khan among others, will start shooting in Sri Lanka next month. "The film is going to be called 'Winds of Change. Because it is an ensemble cast, dates were a problem, but the...
12:30 PM, Jan 12, 2011
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Bend it Like Beckham. ...
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Heaven on Earth. ...
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