Review of the movie Midnight's children

Review of the movie "Midnight's Children"

 

'Midnight's Children' is a film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel, the same name. The film is directed by Deepa Mehta. This film represent many realistic facts, magic realism, mythical technique and magical element, something that is unreal or unbelievable. Mr.Rushdie and Mrs. Gandhi became enemies when 'Midnight's Children' was published in 1981. Because this novel is covering over 60 years in a turbulent history of India and Pakistan from the end of the of the Second world war up to Indira Gandhi's repressive "Emergency" of the 1970s.

                       The main Protagonist of the film is Saleem Sunai, he is the narrator of the film. He started his story from the time of his grandfather. This film is creating many confusion, that confusion about parents of two children, who born the same night of 14th August,1947. But the christian nurse change that both children , she change them for desire of her lover Joe for same reason, he did not want the partition of the India. He told nurse to exchange children of poor and rich. The idea of tacking money from rich and give it to poor. So, it is revolutionary or Marxist idea.

                      This novel raises the ontological question of Saleem's life. We can find several gray areas about Saleem's identity. When we ask Question at that time we find several information about his existence and identity. Here we also find the problem of hybridity. The aim of Salman Rushdie to write this book is all about the situation which was faced by him, in partition time.

                           Political crisis is one of the major events of the Novel. Which portrayed the India during 'Indira Gandhi's rule. Emergency is word - known political crisis for India. Salman Rushdie masks fun of India's progress by suggesting that India and Saleem Grew together.

                           In the movie Salman Rushdie discribe the  mixture of hindi and english language. People influenced by the english language and english culture. Every human being play a political game with eachother. So, their relation is not so good with the others. 

                          At the end of the movie Hindu, Muslim and Christine three identity is presented. So, We can say that in this movie there is we find post Colonialism.  

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