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…starring Preity Zinta… click the image below for the trailer…

[gallery]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.

Deepa Mehta’s new film Heaven On Earth recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival while Nandita Das’ first directorial venture Firaaq was first showcased at Telluride and then at TIFF. Both films look interesting and have met with uneven but some very encouraging reactions.

Heaven On Earth is a story of a domestic abuse with elements of fantasy and magic realism. While this audacious mix might not work for everyone or possibly not work at all, Preity Zinta seems to have delivered an outstanding performance in the film, and the first promo (which otherwise isn’t extraordinary) leads me to believe that- Zinta looks ‘luminous’, as a few reviews have called her, and after her impressive performance in The Last Lear, one hopes for more. Zinta’s career, in fact is on an interesting turn right now with films …

A beautiful young woman, who thinks she is intelligent and has aristocratic hobbies lives with her ailing father in a big, palace like house in a small hill station kind of city in India. She is in to reading, music, painting and other kinds of arts. Her father gets heart attack and a local doctor comes to see him. Simple and humble doctor continues his visits and soon Maya- the young woman feels attraction towards the Doctor and she marries him. She is migrated to his small house where his quite conservative mother also lives and naturally Maya can not set up a good equation with her. Mother goes away.

Time passes and Doctor is living his life as a normal doctor busy in his profession. He thinks he has a good career and a beautiful wife at home. He is a satisfied man but Maya, she feels her wings are …