Discover
Satya Bhabha
Shriya Saran
Siddharth Narayan
Darsheel Safary
Anupam Kher
Shabana Azmi
Neha Mahajan
Seema Biswas
Charles Dance
Rajat Kapoor
Soha Ali Khan
Rahul Bose
Shahana Goswami
Ronit Roy
The film began principal photography in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in February 2011 and wrapped in May 2011. Shooting was kept a secret as Mehta feared protests by Islamic fundamentalist groups. In 2008, Mehta and Salman Rushdie decided to collaborate on a film together. At first Mehta wanted to adapt his novel Shalimar the Clown, but she eventually decided on Midnight's Children instead. Rushdie spent the next two years paring down the 600-page book into a 130-page script. Rushdie told the BBC in an interview that he sold the rights to the film for $1.
