Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie’s second novel (after Grimus) has won all sorts of awards - a Booker, a Booker of Booker, a Best of the Bookers…It has even been adapted for the stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company. But what was missing was a film version of the book. In fact, none of Rushdie’s works have turned into feature films despite many attempts to do so, but now it appears that we may well see the movie version of Midnight’s Children in 2010. The film will be directed by Deepa Mehta, who also directed Water, and will be scripted by her along with Rushdie. The announcement was made during a press conference in New York, during the Indo-American Arts Council’s annual film festival. Names being mentioned to act in the film include Nandita Das, Seema Biswas and Shabana Azmi. Here’s Rushdie on his latest project:

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