Midnight's Children

A child and country were born at midnight once upon a time

Based on Salman Rushdie's acclaimed novel, this is about two boys, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, who grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. They were not aware that they were switched at birth.

150 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Violence).
Drama, On the art circuit.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Not much for supper tonight.

Credits

Cast	Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Ronit Roy, Siddarth, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran
Director	Deepa Mehta
Screenplay	Salman Rushdie, Deepa Mehta, Rutvik Oza, from the novel by Salman Rushdie
Music	Nitin Sawhney
Cinematography	Giles Nuttgens
Editing	Colin Monie
Sound formats
Made in	2013
Produced by	David Hamilton Productions, Hamilton-Mehta Productions, Number 9 Films

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Infrequent, very mild, low impact
Nudity	One naked clinical breast scene
Sex	None
Violence	Psychological impact, infrequent, torture scenes, war scenes, dead soldiers, assassination scenes
Prejudice	Moslem/India civil war, low impact
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Some alcohol, no abuse
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Epic film is going nowhere slowly.	10
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Meesterlike wegvoering na ander tyd en plek.	15
Cape Times Stephen Farber Epic falls short.	10
Metacritic.com 17 critics	11
Rottentomatoes critics 53 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Though Midnight's Children is beautiful to look at and poignant in spots, its script is too indulgent and Deepa Mehta's direction, though ambitious, fails to bring the story together cohesively.	8
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	12
What the People say
Internet 1005 Netizens A Satisfactory (not great) Adaptation of a Literary Masterpiece!	11
Average .. 55%	11