Saleem and Shiva- the truth about is also may be wrong, whose blood is question?
Midnight’s children(novel), is story of Grandfather to son Saleem and another boy Shiva. With the born of independent India at mid night some children were also born and with their grows symbolically growing of India is presented. Movie is like collage of so any things. Many stories goes together with various symbols, hidden meanings and mechanics of the movie. Midnight’s children is like National History in Fictional way. Deepa Mehta try to make it Dreamy and Dramatic. Salman Rushdie is himself screenplay writer, though it is not as good as novel.
Decolonizing of human mind and how we look at freedom struggle or nationalism also is very important. This people who are cross over people hybrid identities like Deepa Mehta, Mira Niar.. They look at history in rather different perspective and which are normally not much in same way and their work hatred r being attacked by Hindutva identities or people.
The film is not very good film, the way Novel has been appreciated time and again and we see that screen play written by same writer of novel yet, even it is not as good as novel. It goes to that idea that when same writer translate the work, it’s not good translation but, it may be not 100% true theory because, writer like Harold Pinter, who was also screen paly writer, but His understanding medium of media and stage very well.
Key aspect of film
1.Chutney frication Or Chutnification.
The idea of chutney is in novel also and that is what he is doing with language also. Chutney is something which is made by mixing so many things and Salman Rushdie done it with English language. Whatever he found Hindi or Urdu words appropriate for it. He is not translate it but allow it to remain as it is, so it is kind of chutney frication. Writer Of pre-independent India’s were translating their views word by word into English , all kahavat and all, this way Indian writing in English is differ than that period of writing Salman Rushdie is gaining more confidence with his own identity to knowing Hindi and Urdu and tries to put that aspect in English Language. Now with expression of Salman Rushdie kind of writer or that group of writer using One’s own technique, one’s own way of writing is gaining confidence.
Symbols
There are very interesting symbol is given in entire novel is considered as allegory of India. So some children are born at midnight and than India is also born at midnight. Saleem Senai who is protagonist and who is born at midnight with whom India’s story also described. Ups and down everything happening we see how India is narrated. Allegory of India is connected with some character so. What we see is history narrated in fictional way. History is narrated is fictionalized or Nation is narrated in fictional way with imagine world. Whatever happened in novel has actually happened in India but, it is interpreted in a different way. The events are happened, it’s real events happened in India. Salman Rushdie’s Way of looking , it may be not fair and He says that when we read meta narrative of past we also have to believe.
Interesting Symbols in Film
1.Spitoon.
Normally spittoon is used for spit but here it used as memory of something but the memory itself become an amnesia. Stroke of it over Saleem become the reason his lost of memory. Amnesia and Memory become debatable point. What we remember, how we remember, what is made to forgotten is very interestingly happening through out literature also.
2. Magic Realism
Magic Realism is something which is part of people’s life and that is become unique style of writing in literature. This style came not from western Writers, who believe in pure realism. They believe that Novel should be written with realism . Canon of literature is when we look at novel it says that it should be reality otherwise it is known as romance.
Magic realism is part of plot and style of movie. It shows lived experience of people of third world country under colonizers. In movie Parvati who knows magic called by people as witch. Because they think magic is craft of illusion. Parvati used to believe in her magic. She has one disappear box also which she used to save Saleem and her child. There is every time absurdity in marriage. Science and superstition has simultaneously shown in the movie.
3.Nose
Fantastic Elements like Different sense of smell, children who born on that same night can meet through this sense and only who can call them who is born exact at 12.00 pm of night, others can only participate and in this Nose is symbolically presented here India’s nose- culture, heritage, history with flight. Father not believe in all that and operation of nose closed the door of that meetings for forever.
4.Hybridity
Everything not told with cause and effect but, Real world is selling in fantastic world. Blurring reality and magic with so many turns took shape of whole movie. With the end of movie our sense is broken about Saleem’s blood that he is son of Mumtaz, but in reality he is the son of Mathwood and Vanita; with that ultimate search of self ‘who am I? Truth of oneself? This is ironically presented to literature toward deep question. Another notion of love that Love is not born, it’s made. We can connect it with mythically represent of Yashoda. Mixture of everything is important in Hinduism; idea of panch mahabhut and panch tatv.
5. Marxist Voice
Character of Joseph and Marry, speaks very loud of representation or satirical voice of Marxist. Rich-Poor and Independence only for rich people like foolish belief and it resulted into big confusion about someone’s identity.
6.Dark and Light
One of the British image of India as snack Charmer and apart from that another scene of Pokhran Nuclear test, shows science and blind faith goes together. Duality of India Dark and Light too. Symbolical presence of emergency by Indira Gandhi and worse condition of helpless people.
At the end,
‘The happy child of the glorious hour’ the news paper is evidence but does it true??? Is central question
(child = India) what Is Nation?
Nation is not boundary, which kills thousands innocent life.
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