Many says its a very nice book. When i started reading it I had to put it away after two paragraphs. Same happened today when I started reading this article.
Do writers really need to be this obscure if when they have many ways to explain simple things?
The novel's epic and whimsical with a capital W. And Mehta, given her filmography seems like a film-maker with diminishing returns. Let's see how mad she's about this, how good's her imagination and how this gets interpreted on screen. You've quoted Atonement and Kubrick's adaptations, but there are stinkbombs in recent cinema history like Captain Correlli madeliene and probably most supportive of your argument-Love in The Time of Cholera which prove Whimsy doesn't translate well on screen, and literality bogs and ruins it all beyond measure. Sigh!
I agree that it is very difficult to make a film out of the masterpiece called "Midnight's Children"...the journey of Saleem is too complicated and i doubt if a film would be able to depict what SIR had been able to say through the novel...it would be more difficut for Sir Rushdie to write the screenplay that writing the novel...
As RGV's blog has revealed, Mr Raja Sen is a aspiring director all producers are running away from! So he is frustrated. Why the heck does he care if Deepa Mehta (or anyone else for that matter) has got the rights for making a movie based on Midnights Children?
REDIFF YOU SEEMS TO BE PROJECTING HIM AS ANTE-MUSLIM MASSIAHA BUT HE IS SELFISH, OPPORTUNIST AND KOWTOWING KIND OF PERSON WHO BELIEVE IN ONLY MONEY POWER AND LUST FOR PUBLICITY.
HE HAS NO FAITH, GOD, FAMILY VALUES, HUMANITY OR KINDNESS IN CHARACTOR.
HE IS CULTURAL AGENT TO VANDALISE MIND AND CORRUPT SOULS.
Re: THIS CYNICALMAN NOT WORTH TO RESPOND
by devi raturi on Nov 14, 2008 11:31 AM
what happened dear??? cool down!!! comment on what Raja Sen has written... Anti-Muslim Messiah???? Have you read Midnight's Children...read it and if you have any taste for "Reading" you can not stop yourself admiring Salman Rushdie!!!!
