Midnight's Children
Director Deepa Mehta has teamed up with writer Salman Rushdie to bring his novel Midnight's Children to the big screen.
Mehta returns to the director's chair with this project for the first time since Heaven On Earth back in 2008 while Rushdie has adapted his own novel into a screenplay.
And we have the new trailer for the movie for you to check out:
The movie brings together a great cast that includes Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor and Ronit Roy in a movie that promises to be essential Christmas viewing.
The movie has already been screened at the BFI London Film Festival and it will be a welcome change to all the blockbuster films that will litter cinema screens over the festive period.
Midnight’s Children follows the destinies of a pair of children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment that India claimed its independence from Great Britain - a coincidence of profound consequence for both.
"Handcuffed to history," and switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital, Saleem Sinai (Satya Bhabha), the son of a poor single mother, and Shiva (Siddharth), scion of a wealthy family, are condemned to live out the fate intended for the other.
Imbued with mysterious telepathic powers, their lives become strangely intertwined and inextricably linked to their country’s careening journey through the tumultuous twentieth century.
Midnight's Children is released 26th December
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