Movie review of "Midnight Children"

Midnight's Children

Directed by Deepa Mehta

Produced by David Hamilton

Doug Mankoff

Steven Silver

Neil Tabatznik

Andrew Spaulding

Written by Salman Rushdie

Based on Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Starring :

Shriya Saran

Satya Bhabha

Shabana Azmi

Anupam Kher

Ronit Roy

Siddharth Narayan

Shahana Goswami

Samrat Chakrabarti

Rahul Bose

Seema Biswas

Darsheel Safary

  “Midnight’s children” is written by controversial writer Salman Rushdie. This is adopted as a film by Deepa Mehta. In the movie Deepa Mehta used very well Salman Rushdie’s narrative style – magic realism. Magic realism is literary devise whereas post colonialism is literary theory. Thus, magic realism is a postcolonial device. Salman Rushdie very well composed literary theory in his writing through his style magic realism.

  Saleem Sinai is the protagonist. Saleem born on midnight that time India got freedom in the hand of British. So Saleem Sinai’s generation of midnight’s children to the generation of Indians with whom he was born and raised. Saleem’s entire life struggled with self – identity, conflicts of living between two worlds and the forces of new cultures. Saleem’s life represents the life of Salman Rushdie.
 
  Salman Rushdie felt that he hasn’t his own land, there was only Imaginary Homelands. Same thing he gave to his character – Saleem that he became the sandwich between two identities, two nations. He hasn’t his own neither blood nor love or neither identity nor nation. This we can say through what he said that

       ‘‘My wrong blood changed my father’s love into hate.’’

And also said that

      ‘‘I have many families and no family’’

                         Or

  We can say that he have many nations and no nation, what Salman Rushdie talked about ‘‘Authenticity’’ that there is no authenticity. Authenticities in everywhere like ideas, nations and also narrator. We cannot say that these all things are truth. We cannot rely on that. Because nothing is ours, we are just part of that. The only thing is about the ‘‘Acts of Love’’ and ‘‘Humanity’’.

  This idea is reflect at the end of the movie when Saleem said to his child that

       ‘‘A new generation but more careful Acts of Love’’.