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Midnight’s Children

Midnight’s Children is a 1981 novel by British Indian author ‘Salman Rushdie’. It deals with India’s transition from British Colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist literature. This movie’s screenplay by Rushdie and directed by Deepa Mehta. In India, the film was released on 1^st February 2013 with minimal cuts owing to clever casting & script treatment by Mehta. The movie is different from another movie and in this movie we see it is the reflect the culture, society and the main thing is it’s reflect the literature. In this movie we saw a many-things. The story within the story the story is frame within the frame. We see the movie from starting to end. How the story take turn. The one generation start with the movie’s starting and end with the movie but in the end we saw the second generation. First we see the three major themes of the.

1)   Creation & Telling of History

2)   Creation & Telling of Nation & Individual’s Identity

3)   The Creation & Telling of Stories  

Full movie based on this three theme.  In movie we see the creation and telling of History, Nation, Individual’s Identity and the stories. In movie we see the how people live before the independence. Conflict, difference between the rich and poor.

Symbol in this movie is spittoon, Taj mahal and Train this all are symbol of the movie. Spittoon is symbol of the memory. First it is symbol of the love. When Amina first time get married her beloved give her the Spittoon. Spittoon repeat many time. After that when the attack on the Saleem’s house. That time spittoon fall on his head. Taj Mahal is symbol of the love. Amina’s first marriage his husband give gift of the Taj Mahal. And when his husband give her Talaq that time Taj Mahal broken. Train is symbol of the Indianness. In every movie which based on the India in that all movie train always included. Triple Talaq in this movie which reflect present time. In present time triple talaq is a big issue. Which is ben now. But triple talaq in that time it was part of the religion. In this movie we see the ‘Parda Pratha’. In the starting of the movie we see how doctor check the girl. In that scene we see the Parda Pratha.

Hybridity

 Hybridity means, “ Genetics The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially the offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties, species or race. In this movie we see hybridity identity in Saleem. Saleem was son of poor Indian lady and the colonizer.

Diaspora

Diaspora means, “ people who come from a particular nation, or whose ancestors came from it, but who now live in many different parts of the world are sometimes referred to as the diaspora”. We see term diaspora in this movie the movie start from the Kashmir in Dal Lake (1917). After that story came in Agra (1942). Kashmir to Agra. Then story came Bombay (1947). Then Pakistan (1971) and movie end in Delhi (1972). We see the story of the movie the movie go in one to another state. So we can say the term Diaspora came in the movie.

Conflict between poor and rich.

The movie’s main concept is Conflict between rich and poor. We see this thing when the shiv and Saleem born. The nurse change the both child. child of Vanita and Amina. She poot child as rich poor and poor rich.   she do this because she don’t want to poor child live his life in poverty. So she change the child and give their parents. Nurse Mary’s boy friend was died in the conflict of the rich and poor. This thing till end of the movie we see. How Shiva hates Saleem. Shiva always fight with the Saleem because of the Saleem is rich so.

Midnight

The title itself a symbol of the movie. Midnight children means according to Rushdie it is, “ the children born just at midnight and during first hour after it, on the very day of India’s independence, i.e. 15^th August, 1947.” Shiva and Saleem are the midnight children And many other they all are the midnight children. The movie based on this thing. This children have a different things given by the god like Saleem listen by his nose, another is fly like this every one has different things. The one dialogue based on this it is,

“Children of midnight  

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                                       Midnight’s Children”

This movie deep satire on the Pakistan. Full movie is a satire. Rushdie criticized movie. In this movie we see the blood group is also identity. Before the independence blood group is identity of the family. In that technology can’t developed.