Genre: Drama
Rating: NC16
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Anupam Kher, Satya Bhabha, Shabana Azmi, Shahana Goswami, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan
Plot:
Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country, has telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Saleem is born precisely at midnight, 15 August, 1947, and is, therefore, exactly as old as the independent republic of India. He later discovers that all children born in India between 12 AM and 1AM on that date are imbued with special powers. Saleem, using his telepathic powers, assembles a Midnight Children's Conference, reflective of the issues India faced in its early statehood concerning the cultural, linguistic, religious, and political differences faced by a vastly diverse nation. Saleem acts as a telepathic conduit, bringing hundreds of geographically disparate children into contact while also attempting to discover the meaning of their gifts. In particular, those children born closest to the stroke of midnight wield more powerful gifts than the others.