Deepa Mehta for Midnight’s Children
oz | Qwiki | November 11, 2008 at 9:35 am
Deepa Mehta is collaborating with Salman Rushdie on a big-screen adaptation of the author’s 1981 historical novel “Midnight’s Children.” Rushdie and Mehta will co-write the screenplay and shooting is tentatively scheduled to commence in 2010. Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das are on board to star in the project. Tags: Deepa Mehta, Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
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I think Seema Biswas is also on board to play one of the characters in the film.And Salman Rushdie himself may also make a special appearence.
Literary style of Salman Rushdie (magic realism) is so away from reality and yet depicting the reality that it would need a whole new cinematic grammar and mannerism to portray it on screen.
Though I have no doubt Deepa Mehta capturing the human angle of it brilliantly, it would have been great to see someone try and make a cinematic presentation equivalent of Salman’s literary work!
That is NEWS man! If she does justice to the story (and I am a 200% sure she will) this shall be a kickass movie in the history of Indian cinema!
IMHO – leave the book as it is, I’ve been disappointed far often with a bad adaptation, one Godfather is gnough.!
Tanul, are you saying Godfather was a bad adaption of the novel?
@Tejas: Oh no! Absolutely not, since Godfather was such an adaptation(even better than some of the portions in the book, book digresses a bit in some portions), but, after that there have not been many succesful adaptations, in fact sometimes the movie sours the very experience of a good novel, so I meant the memory of one great adaptation is enough for me. Though, Lehane’s novel Mystic River has been beautifully adapted on to the screen as well, but I’m apprehensive about Midnight’s Children.
As a matter of fact, I would go as far as saying that Godfather and LOTR are probably the two greatest adaptions of their source material. (Yes, I have read LOTR, and I am not making the statement without knowing the source material.)