Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

          Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children is not a well-crafted film of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. Yet it captures the essence of the novel to the core. the children born at the stroke of midnight of Aug 15, 1947, especially, Saleem, Shiva and Parvati, it is a multi-layered tale of destinies. It is a story of the rich, the poor and the misguided. It is fiction and fantasy delightfully wrapped within the folds of the political scenario of the three countries, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The birth of Saleem is a complex tale that is narrated in the first 45 minutes of the film. Inspired by her rebel husband's communist slogan, "Let the rich be poor and the poor, rich", the misguided paediatric nurse, Mary, deliberately switches the identity tags of the two babies as a gesture of solidarity and thereby swaps their destinies.

Magic Realism is also plays vital role in making movie believable. If this technique want used then perhaps we Won’t believe in the story. Through magic realism all children brought together in the movie, and it gives novelty to the movie and makes it more interesting.
       Movie is also political allegory, presenting dark side of partition, then the war with Pakistan and Emergency. So it looks  like Rashdie as a outsider criticizing india. The scene of india in  the  movie is of slum, poverty which looks defaming india. It looks towards india like western people does.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist  is novel by Pakistan born writer Mohsin Hamid. This movie is also based on this novel. The Reluctant Fundamentalist movie is brightly directed by Meera Nair Dir.

This beautiful movie is about how the new era of fear is dividing East and West, featuring UK-based writer Mohsim Hamid's critically acclaimed book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, about the impact of Sept 11th on Muslims living abroad post 9/11 attacks & its psychological and political damage. It's a tale of mixed loyalties and one man's journey into the heart of the conflict.

This is a story about two extremes. On the one hand is the religious fundamentalism which drives people to kill for the sake of dogma and blind obedience to a book whilst on the other hand lies the financial fundamentalism which drives people to gamble the livelihoods of others for the sake of individual profit maximisation and wealth accumulation.