While adapting Salman Rushdie's Booker-winning novel -Midnight's Children' into a film, noted director Deepa Mehta would also make the author act in it. After dabbling with magic realism in her last movie Videsh , Deepa Mehta is now geared up for a bigger challenge - to adapt -Midnight's Children' which has many ambiguous themes of 'magic realism', extremely difficult, if not impossible, to be portrayed on the visual medium.   read more »