Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children won the Booker Prize back in 1981, but it’s only now that a movie version has been made, which debuted at TIFF earlier this month. Oscar nominated director Deepa Mehta, is behind the film, which takes on Rushdie’s magical realist novel about the destinies of a pair of children born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment that India claimed its independence from Great Britain. Switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital, Saleem Sinai (Satya Bhabha), the son of a poor single mother, and Shiva (Siddharth), scion of a wealthy family, are condemned to live out the fate intended for the other. Imbued with mysterious telepathic powers, their lives become strangely intertwined and inextricably linked to their countrys careening journey through the tumultuous twentieth century. The film play the London Film Festival next month, but no full UK release is currently set.