Updated On: 31 January, 2013 07:54 AM IST | | PTI
For Indo-Canadian actress Anita Majumdar, playing the role of a north Indian girl Emerald in Deepa Mehta's adaptation of 'Midnight's Children' was a challenge and she was 'awe-struck' while working with veteran Bollywood actors
Emerald, the aunt to main character Saleem Sinai in Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children', ends up marrying General Zulfikar, played by Rahul Bose who covers the Pakistan angle in the novel. 'Perhaps the greatest challenge was that I was a Canadian playing a girl who was born and brought up in north India during a very specific time period.

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