Toronto: After adapting Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' for the big screen, Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta is working on a script based on Shilpi Somaya Gowda's novel 'Secret Daughter' about how two families are bound by an adoption.
Mehta is said to be busy penning the script for producers Jody Colero of Silent Joe Inc. and Hussain Amarshi of Mongrel Media, reports hollywoodreporter.com.
'Secret Daughter' tells the story of two families, one in Mumbai, India, forced to give a baby up for adoption, and another in San Francisco, in the US, raising a brown-skinned child from another culture.
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05:31 PM, May 16, 2013
Washington: Celebrated writer Salman Rushdie is all over the film version of his acclaimed novel 'Midnight's Children'. He has himself done the screenplay and also serves as the film's all-knowing narrator. Yet he says it's Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta's film. She 'absolutely' took over once the script was done, Rushdie told IANS in an interview on phone from New York, where both he and Mehta were for the special kickoff...
05:45 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Actress Shriya Saran, who features in Deepa Mehta's 'Midnight's Children', says she had a "brilliant" experience working with the Canada-based Indian filmmaker, who played a perfect guide to her. ...
05:05 PM, Feb 03, 2013
The problem with authors adapting their own books into screenplays is that they're often so attached to the material, it's hard for them to yank out what doesn't necessarily work for the film and stick to the best bits. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's look at the history of India and Pakistan as illustrated through the journey of Saleem Sinai, is an unquestionably engrossing tale, but it's impossible to squeeze it...
12:09 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Filmmaker Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Booker prize-winning novel of the same name 'Midnight's Children' hit screens in India on Friday. ...
03:02 PM, Feb 01, 2013
Director Deepa Mehta who was also invited to the literary meet, says she cancelled her visit out of solidarity. "I didn't go to Kolkata out of solidarity for Salman Rushdie. It is not fair that he was disinvited at the last minute. He was told by the police, or I'm not clear who were the powers who told him, I think it was the Chief Minister's decision. He was told ...
02:34 PM, Feb 01, 2013
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
Some political groups objected to the film when it was showcased at the International Film Festival of Kerala. ...
12:18 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Rahul recalls how long time back he was Rushdie's first choice for a mini series that was to be made on the book. ...
04:08 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Indo-Canadian actress Anita Majumdar plays the role of a north Indian girl Emerald in 'Midnight's Children'. ...
02:49 PM, Jan 30, 2013
The film is based on Rushdie's 1980 Booker Prize winning novel and he has written the screenplay for it. ...
02:39 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Author Salman Rushdie's trip to Kolkata for a promotional event of the movie 'Midnight's Children', the adaptation of his book, has been cancelled, say sources. ...
11:47 AM, Jan 30, 2013
It's a clash of the titans at the box-office this Friday as 'Vishwaroop', the Hindi version of Kamal Haasan's controversial Tamil film 'Vishwaroopam', hits the Indian screens along with Deepa Mehta's 'Midnight's Children', based on Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning controversial novel of the same name. ...
10:09 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Director Deepa Mehta along with acclaimed author Salman Rushdie discusses her upcoming film 'Midnight's Children'. The movie is an adaptation of 's 1981 novel of the same name. ...
02:36 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Salman Rushdie has put his singing abilities on test for Deepa Mehta's new film 'Midnight's Children'. ...
11:47 AM, Jan 25, 2013
Controversies refuse to leave Salman Rushdie as the author who is in India to promote the movie adaptation of his novel 'Midnight's Children' was initially forced to cancel and ultimately shift his press conference due to security reasons. Delhi was the first stop for the author in a multi-city tour of the country, which does not include a trip to Jaipur, a city where his presence at the Literature Festival...
11:49 PM, Jan 24, 2013
Author Salman Rushdie, who's book Midnight's Children is now a film has said that there is a cultural emergency in India. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, both Rushdie and the film's director, Deepa Mehta said they are deeply worried about repeated attacks on creative freedom in India. ...
01:38 PM, Jan 24, 2013
