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
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
Two macho men pretending to be lovers or an endearing mobster with an equally loveable Man Friday...these unusual male pairs of Bollywood have enough spark to carry off a film on their muscular shoulders. Be it John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan in Dostana or Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi in the Munnabhai series or Ranvir Shorey and Vinay Pathak in Bheja Fry, the male bonding story has certainly turned a...
01:20 PM, May 12, 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
