‘Midnight’s Children’ will be called as ‘Winds of Change’ as a film
Film on Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize winning novel ‘Midnight’s Children’ will be called ‘Winds of Change’. It’s a Deepa Mehta’s much awaited film.
The filmmaker is best known for her film trilogy ‘Fire’, ‘Water’, ‘Earth’, which dealt with a gamut of controversial topics including lesbianism and the Partition.
Irrfan Khan, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi and Soha Ali Khan are in the main roles in tme movie, the team will start shooting in Sri Lanka next month.
According to a source closer to the director informed, “The film is going to be called ‘Winds of Change. Because it is an ensemble cast, dates were a problem, but the film will start shooting soon.”
The Canada-based filmmaker has written the script along with Rushdie and had said in earlier interviews that it definitely was a challenge. “I love challenges and adapting ‘Midnight’s Children’ is a challenge for me but it is very fascinating at the same time,” said Mehta who had first read the book during the 80’s.
The Booker Prize winning novel ‘Midnight’s Children’ depicts the incidents before and after the independence and the partition of India through the eyes of protagonist Saleem Sinai, whose birthday coincides with the birth of independent India on August 15, 1947.
The filmmaker is best known for her film trilogy ‘Fire’, ‘Water’, ‘Earth’, which dealt with a gamut of controversial topics including lesbianism and the Partition.
(News Editor- Naushin Fatima Khan)
