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Midnight's Children

2012

Deepa Mehta

Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Biswas ...

5.6

590

Drama Midnight's Children is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor woman, and Shiva, the offspring of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destiny meant for ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"The film is ambitious and often sumptuous to watch but not always dramatically satisfying"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"It's a vibrant journey, but not a terribly illuminating one"	NEU
United Kingdom	Guy Lodge Time Out	"Mehta fudges the political allegory in favour of the story's magical realism, but still can't get her arms around the material (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Considering 'Midnight's Children' is bound up in notions of identity, it is faintly disastrous that this adaptation should be so lacking in one of its own (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There's enough here to entertain - and to send audiences back to the book (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The film is beautifully shot, with vivid production design. But because of the tale's lack of cohesion, it doesn't carry enough emotional heft"	NEU
United States	Rachel Saltz The New York Times	"The film needs an injection of Bollywood’s unembarrassed, anything-goes, bigger-than-life spirit"	NEU

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