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‘Midnight’s Children’ film finds distributor in India

A new film of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children” is due to be released in India after fears it would not find a distributor in the country where it is set, according to a report. PVR Pictures has acquired the film to be shown in Indian cinemas by the…

‘Insecure politicians’ blocking Salman Rushdie film adaptation in India

A new film of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel “Midnight’s Children”, which is set in India after independence, may not be released in the country, its director has said, blaming “insecure politicians”. The adaptation, which has been showed at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada, is due for worldwide release…

Jackie Kennedy disliked de Gaulle, India’s Gandhi

The wife of assassinated US president John F. Kennedy did not care for French leader Charles de Gaulle or India’s Indira Gandhi, according to newly-released taped interviews. The interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, recorded months after the 1963 assassination of her husband and aired for the first time by ABC News,…