ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Art Director Chowdhry, Kabir

Cinematographer Nuttgens, Giles

Executive Producer Hamilton, David

Executive Producer Karlsen, Elizabeth

Executive Producer Mankoff, Doug

Executive Producer Mehta, Dilip

Executive Producer Rushdie, Salmon

Executive Producer Silver, Steven

Executive Producer Spaulding, Andrew

Executive Producer Tabatznik, Neil

Executive Producer Woolley, Stephen

Film Editor Monie, Colin

Music Sawhney, Nitin

Producer Hamilton, David

Screenwriter Rushdie, Salman

Sound Arseneault, Sylvain

Sound Solakofski, Lou

Sound Tattersall, Jane

Production Company Hamilton-Mehta Productions Inc.

Production Company Number 9 Films

Principal Cast Bhabha, Satya

Principal Cast Biswas, Seema

Principal Cast Bose, Rahul

Principal Cast Goswami, Shahana

Principal Cast Kapoor, Rajat

Principal Cast Kher, Anupam

Principal Cast Majumdar, Anita

Principal Cast Roy, Ronit

Principal Cast Saran, Shriya

Principal Cast Shaikh, Zaib

Principal Cast Siddharth

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TIFF NOTE

It's no overstatement to say that Midnight's Children changed the world. Published in 1981, Salman Rushdie's second novel won him the Booker Prize, went on to become a perennial bestseller and the core of countless university courses on postcolonial literature. It also offered us new ways of thinking about South Asia. That success was all the more remarkable because this was a book set partly in India and partly in the soaring imagination of its author. Full of flights of fantasy and complex literary allusion, it is not an easy read. But the significance of Midnight's Children rests even more in the story it told. At midnight on August 15, 1947, the nation of India was born out of the ashes of British colonialism. This partition between India and Pakistan was a moment of simultaneous pride and pain. Midnight meant self-government for hundreds of millions, but also a frenzy of conflict that displaced twelve million people and led to the deaths of up to one million more. Rushdie strode into that thicket of recent history and conceived the story of a man who was born on the precise moment of Partition, with telepathic powers and the symbolic weight of a billion on his shoulders. For the past several years, Rushdie has been working with acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta on a film adaptation of Midnight's Children. It is a famously challenging task. But Mehta has already proven herself fearless in bringing to the screen films such as Fire, Earth, Water and Heaven on Earth. She has stood up to efforts to ban her work, to stop her from shooting her films, to silence her. Blessed with a rich sense of humour to match her backbone, she has emerged as one of our most important filmmakers. In this Mavericks conversation, Mehta and Rushdie will discuss bringing the story from page to screen. Having just finished shooting Midnight's Children this summer in Sri Lanka, Mehta will also offer a sneak peek at scenes from the film.

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