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Status
Released
Release
2012
Runtime
2h 28m
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"A child and country were born at midnight once upon a time."
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.
26 Cast Members
Satya Bhabha
Saleem Sinai
Shahana Goswami
Amina
Shabana Azmi
Naseem
Rajat Kapoor
Aadam Aziz
Siddharth
Shiva
Shriya Saran
Parvati
Charles Dance
William Methwold
Anupam Kher
Ghani
Salman Rushdie
Narrator (voice)
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Mian Abdullah
Kusum Haider
Rani of Cooch
Zaib Shaikh
Nadir Khan
Samrat Chakrabarti
Wee Willie Winkle
Anita Majumdar
Emerald
Shikha Talsania
Alia
Rahul Bose
Zulfikar
Ronit Roy
Ahmed Sinai
M.G.M.S. Zulfick
Mullah
Rakhi Kumari
Vanita
Seema Biswas
Mary Pereira
