New Delhi: Deepa Mehta is going to face the same problem in 'Midnight's Children' that most of the directors encounter while adapting a book for the visual medium. Salman Rushdie is known for the touch of magical realism in his writing which can be a tough thing to translate on screen. If the film is going to be true to the homonymous novel then it would portray the post independence...
12:44 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children', a tale of partition, and independence has been turned into a movie by Deepa Mehta. ...
04:32 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Mumbai: Deepa Mehta's film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel 'Midnight's Children' has been passed without any cuts by the Censor Boardof Film Certification (CBFC). The 62-year-old Indo-Canadian filmmaker's ambitious project, which is slated for a February release, has recently opened the ongoing 17th edition of International Film Festival of Kerala. "India here we come-intact! Great news... Midnight's Children went through Indian Censor board today without one pic cut. Salman Rushdie...
06:30 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Mumbai: Teen actor Darsheel Safary is excited about Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's 'Midnight's Children' because for the first time he is 'doing a film of this kind'. A big screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie's bestseller of the same name, 'Midnight's Children' cast boasts of names likes Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Rahul Bose and Soha Ali Khan. "I have shot for Deepa Mehta's film 'Midnight's Children'....
04:47 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Nagpur: 'Baromas', a Hindi film on the agrarian crisis in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, has been selected to be a part of 2012 South Asian International Film Festival in New York. The festival will be held in New York from October 24 to 30. The film, based on Sadanand Deshmukh's Sahitya Academy award winning Marathi novel by the same name, is slated to be shown at the festival on October...
06:26 PM, Oct 05, 2012
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...
10:07 AM, Sep 01, 2012
His second innings appears to be with a bang. Filmmaker Sanjeev Sivan, who was on a sabbatical, is back to Mollywood, and this time his hands are full. The director, whose last outing was 'Aparichithan' in 2004, has four projects in the pipeline, the latest being a bilingual action thriller starring Unni Mukundan, to be taken simultaneously in Hindi and Malayalam. The movie will be the first Hindi film of...
12:27 PM, Aug 15, 2012
Mumbai: Ever since filmmaker Shekhar Kapur directed Seema Biswas as the dreaded bandit queen Phoolan Devi, way back in, the film became a household name. Now buzz is that a sequel to it is being planned. However, this time around Bobby Bedi will don the directors hat. While the rest of the cast is still being finalized, buzz is that Seema will be retained as the protagonist. Our source says,...
12:24 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Washington: Acclaimed actor Seema Biswas of 'Bandit Queen' and 'Water' fame looks at Indian-American director Prashant Bhargava's award winning first feature film 'Patang' (Kite) as an extraordinary film. "It's not a conventional kind of film," she said of the film about family conflict set in Ahmedabad. "It's totally different, totally unique and totally unconventional in its treatment, whether it's handling of the camera or handling the actors." "No one can...
04:29 PM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: Film: 'With Love, Delhi'; Actors: Ashish Lal, Pariva Pranati, Tom Alter, Kiran Kumar; Director: Nikhil Singh; Rating: * Mithun Chakravarty's film 'Gunda' is a cult classic among IITians because it is so full of cliches and stretches them so much that it becomes a delightful watch. After many attempts, IITians have finally made a film - "With Love, Delhi" - that could have matched 'Gunda's' low standards. Sadly,...
12:29 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Mumbai: Although certain topics are considered a taboo in the industry even now, director David Atkins has shown courage and has helmed a film on transgenders called Queens! Destiny Of Dance, which got full support of actress Hema Malini, who came to launch the music of the film. Queens! Destiny Of Dance that is slated to hit screens on April 29th, narrates the issues of transgenders in the country and...
11:49 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Slow pace and sub-plots ruin a good film. ...
06:09 PM, Mar 27, 2010
The tele film features Vinod Khanna and Seema Biswas in the lead roles. ...
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