For many years Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was deemed unfilmable, but now Deepa Mehta has taken on the task – working from Rushdie’s own script – and has been getting good notices for the end result. The movie reaches UK cinema screens on December 26th, and to celebrate, we’ve got a copy of the novel and a film poster to give away to one lucky person.
Spanning decades and generations, celebrated Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s highly anticipated adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize®-winning novel is an engrossing allegorical fantasy in which children born on the cusp of India’s independence from Britain are endowed with strange, magical abilities.
Midnight’s Children follows the destinies of a pair of children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment that India claimed its independence from Great Britain – a coincidence of profound consequence for both. “Handcuffed to history,” and switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital, Saleem Sinai (Satya Bhabha), the son of a poor single mother, and Shiva (Siddharth), scion of a wealthy family, are condemned to live out the fate intended for the other. Imbued with mysterious telepathic powers, their lives become strangely intertwined and inextricably linked to their country’s careening journey through the tumultuous twentieth century.
If you’d like to try and win one of the Midnight’s Children novel and poster that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on January 1st, so get answering and good luck!
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