Recounting tales of a lost childhood

Deepa Mehta's epic "Midnight's Children" and the campy sci-fi flick "Manborg" are among recent Canadian films available on home video. Film expert John McKay looks at homegrown movies ranging from the sublime to

Every time a car speeds past, Viji shudders. Only three nights ago the nine-year-old was witness to a sight that may have scarred her for life. On Wednesday night, a Mercedes Benz with a drunkman at the wheel ran over a family of pavement dwellers, killing a ...

At least 12 people including women and children were injured when a bomb went off in a residential area here after midnight.

Midnight's Children which continues its rollout into theaters on June 7, is an adaptation of the legendary Salman Rushdie novel of the same name. Though the author lends his hand to the screenplay,

After 'Midnight's Children', Indo-Canadian director Deepa Mehta is bringing Shilpi Somaya Gowda's novel 'Secret Daughter' to the big screen. Mehta is currently working on the script of the movie, which will be produced by Jody Colero of Silent Joe Inc and ...

Director Deepa Mehta had opted to film Water and Midnight's Children in Sri Lanka and Kashyap too found the country historically more suited for his film. "It is set in the 60s and I needed a consistent heritage look and a skyline to loyally depict ...

Three decades after "Midnight's Children" catapulted Salman Rushdie to literary glory, a film of the novel feels like "closing the circle" after his dark years in hiding, he says.

Kandiwara (Anantnag) Apr 5: “We were busy burying the children till midnight. This is a huge tragedy. We lost everything,” says Mukhtar Ahmad Shah of this remote village in south Kashmir’s Anantnag (Islamabad) district, where nine children lost their ...

R. 140 minutes. At the Mayan. If anyone should compose the screen adaptation of a beloved book, it's the author, right? In the case of "Midnight's Children," maybe not. Salman Rushdie co-wrote the script from his 1981 Booker Prize-winning novel, ...