Midnight's children movie review

Midnight's children film review

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Cast: Satya Bhabha, Siddharth, Shahana Goswami, Ronit Roy
Director: Deepa Mehta
Rating: Two and a half stars

A villa’s drawing room, sometime during the British Raj, is occupied by a Pinochio-nosed doctor, his termagant wife and three daughters who must find their ideal husbands – a situation echoing a Jane Austen novel. Garbed in shades of blue-and-white, the family is strikingly elegant but also overwrought -- what with the facial expressions of the eligible trio of girls contorting in rhythm to the sarcasm-dipped voice-over, elocuted by the saga’s author.

Actually that’s one of the more strikingly stylish scenes in Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of  Midnight’s Children, the masterly 1981 novel by Salman Rushdie, who incidentally authors the screenplay. Indeed the shifts of styles and moods through this lumbering cross-generational epic, add up to a dissatisfying and disconcerting two-and-a-half hour experience. Like the proverbial curate’s egg, Mehta’s most ambitious film yet, is largely indigestible but not without its redeeming morsels.

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