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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10:53 PM, Mar 02, 2013
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09:56 AM, Feb 13, 2013
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05:50 PM, Feb 07, 2013
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11:05 PM, Feb 06, 2013
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08:46 PM, Feb 03, 2013
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07:44 PM, Feb 03, 2013
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05:05 PM, Feb 03, 2013
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02:31 PM, Feb 03, 2013
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07:27 AM, Feb 03, 2013
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11:24 PM, Feb 02, 2013
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11:01 AM, Feb 02, 2013
It's a war of words between author Salman Rushdie and the West Bengal government. The author on Friday alleged that he was forced to cancel his trip to Kolkata after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered the police to block his arrival. ...
11:55 PM, Feb 01, 2013
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11:52 PM, Feb 01, 2013
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