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Thinking Activity: Analytic review of "Midnight's Children" and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"

Analytic review of films: Midnight's Children, The Reluctant Fundamental and The Black Prince "Midnight’s Children" Midnight’s children is a 2012 Canadian-British film adaption of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel with the same name. Directed by Oscar nominated director Deepa Mehta and based on Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie,   the film has an extraordinary as well as interesting frames and features. The movie unearth the history of Indian independence as well as of Indian partition by representing a pair of children who were born in Bombay at the stroke of midnight on 15 th August, 1947, with a birth of new country. It was the time of highly patriotism where Jawaharlal Nehru was leading the newly born independent country into and era of hope and grand possibilities but, Could the citizens of country live in that era of striking hope?  or Still there was a darkness in country? Did the talk of great hope and grand possibilities wou