Midnight’s Children
A; Drama
Dir: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Satya Bhabha, Rajat Kapoor
Rating:u00a0

Rushdie’s screenplay, based on his own book gets some of its ‘essence’ right, but director Deepa Mehta does a mostly appalling hatchet job of realising the power of the novel on screen. Instead of subtly transitioning the allegories of love, gloom, loss, diversity and redemption to the big screen, Mehta pummels the viewer with incongruous and dreadfully melodramatic computer graphics to heighten the mood.u00a0