MUMBAI: Salman Rushdie is all set to make his big screen debut. He will play the role of Shri Ramram Seth — a mystic who floats six inches above the ground and hangs pictures of Vishnu‘s avatars on his walls in the screenplay adaptation of his own Booker-winning novel, Midnight‘s Children.
The novel which also won the Booker of Bookers prize recently is to be directed by Deepa Mehta. The film will go on the floors next year.
Sources reveal that Rushdie already had a narration of the film with Mehta and Shabana Azmi (leading lady) before Deepa announced that she would make the film at a film festival in New York last year.
Though it is not known who will play the lead of character of Saleem Sinai, the narrator of the film, Shabana Azmi will play Jamila Singer (Saleem‘s sister) while Nandita Das would play Padma Mangroli (Saleem‘s girlfriend and the listener).
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