Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Midnight's children [videorecording] / FilmNation Entertainment and Noble Nomad Pictures present ; a David Hamilton/Number 9 Films production ; directed by Deepa Mehta ; produced by David Hamilton ; screenplay by Salman Rushdie.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Virgil Films & Entertainment, [2013]

Description:

1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

At the stroke of midnight on August 15th, 1947, as India declares independence from Great Britain, two babies are switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. And so it is that Saleem Sinai, the illegitimat child of a beggar woman, and Shiva, the only son of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destinies meant for each other. Over the next three decades, Saleem and Shiva find themselves on opposite sides of many a conflict.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: NR.

Subjects:

Infants switched at birth -- India -- Drama.

Fate and fatalism -- Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hamilton, David.

Rushdie, Salman.