Midnight’s Children, too, which would have been impossible to make in India, was filmed in Sri Lanka and used the subterfuge of a false title, Winds of Change.

In the case of "Midnight's Children," maybe not.Salman Rushdie co-wrote the script from his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel, and the movie arrives looking beautiful on screen but feeling ...

Midnight’s Children had been viewed as a potentially controversial project within India, since the novel is considered to be critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.

Forty years after the publication of “Midnight’s Children,” author Salman Rushdie said he believes the India he was brought up in “is crumbling.” His acclaimed book, which won the Booker ...

Midnight's Children (**½ out of four; rated PG-13; expands Friday nationwide) traces the fates of two babies switched at birth at midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, the precise moment when India declared ...

What does it require to take the ‘unfilmable’ and transfer it successfully to screen? This was the quandary director Deepa Mehta and author Salman Rushdie faced when attempting to adapt Rushdie’s own ...

Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel Midnight's Children is many things — ambitious, chaotic, fantastical, mythic — but generic it isn't. Which makes the long-awaited film version ...

Midnight’s Children follows the life of Saleem Sinai, who was born on the stroke of midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, the same time as India’s independence.

At 149 minutes, Deepa Mehta’s sprawling, hyper-saturated adaptation of the epic Salman Rushdie classic “Midnight’s Children” feels like too much to take in all at once. Suspended somewhere ...

The defining post-colonial novel has arrived onstage in a theater version of "Midnight's Children" that is likely to be defining for rather different reasons. Tim Supple's production perpetuates ...

Salman Rushdie's legendary novel Midnight's Children was set on this very day—an opportune time to republish The New Republic's 1981 review of the book. May 23, 1981. Skip Navigation ...