Midnight's Children Page #7

Synopsis: A pair of children, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Deepa Mehta
Production: Paladin Films
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
TV-14
Year:
2012
146 min
$85,497
Website
603 Views


up all of that before he was born.

She didn't give it up.

I found Aadam in her

basket of invisibility.

The soldiers looked

inside and shouted...

It's empty! It's empty!

I heard them with my own ears.

But you saw him?

I believed in her magic.

Always knew it was not a trick.

He's a fine child, child of dignity.

No matter he doesn't

speak but he will,

when he has something to say.

This chutney!

What's this? Where's it from?

Here, sir.

Oh! One from famous

Braganza Pickles of Bombay.

Picture-ji, we must go to Bombay.

Just now?.

Now.

Parvati was gone.

But in the five-syllable

monotony of the wheels,

I heard her magic spell.

"Abracadabra,

abracadabra, abracadabra,"...

...sang the wheels,

as they bore us back to Bombay.

Is Mrs Braganza here?

Yes, but you can't meet with her.

Where are you going?

Hello?

Who is it?

Saleem.

Oh...

You've become so thin.

Let me kiss you.

Mary, this is my son, Aadam.

And Aadam...

come here.

come, Little Baba.

Blow. Blow.

Happy birthday.

Bless you.

Abba...

He spoke!

He's speaking.

Abba...

My God.

He's calling me "father".

Speak son, speak.

...abracadabra.

What did you say?

Abracadabra.

Another magic child.

So. A new generation...

but more careful.

Tougher.

A child and a country were

born at midnight, once upon a time.

Great things were

expected of us both.

The truth has been less

glorious than the dream.

But we have survived

and made our way.

And our lives have been,

in spite of everything,

acts of love.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the subject of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries. Death threats were made against him, including a fatwā calling for his assassination issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, on 14 February 1989. The British government put Rushdie under police protection. In 1983 Rushdie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the UK's senior literary organisation. He was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in January 1999. In June 2007, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him for his services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked him thirteenth on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.Since 2000, Rushdie has lived in the United States. He was named Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University in 2015. Earlier, he taught at Emory University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2012, he published Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses. more…

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