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Midnight's Children: I ndian-Canadian dire ctor Deepa Mehta has made a film "Midnight's Children" based on the novel "Midnight's Children" by Indian-British author Salman Rushdie.            "Midnight's Children" is a story about two boys Saleem and shiva who born at 12 at midnight when India got its independence.            This movie is all about Postcolonial aspects and there is also depiction of emergency by Indira Gandhi.   Story involves four generation from grand father of Saleem to the son of Saleem. Both Saleem and Shiva has telepathy power to call other children who born at that same night in that one hour. They called themselves midnight's children. It also talks about emergency by Indira Gandhi. This movie has postcolonial aspects. Here we are trying to see some postcolonial aspects which movie has. The birth of Saleem and Shiva at same time, it also shows the birth of two nations India and...

Hello!!!  This blog is a part of the academic movie Screening of "Kya Kehna" in the context of The novel "The Scarlet letter". 1.What are the names of the protagonists in both the works?      Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel "The SCARLET LETTER' And in the movie 'KYA KEHNA' Priya Bakshi is the main character. The scarlet letter     The novel "The Scarlet letter" is the work of  American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The setting part of the novel has a puritan settlement which sets in the year of 1642 in Boston city. Other important characters are Pearl, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth. Hester is mother of Pearl. She is a young wife whose husband has been missing for over a year and she is accused for adultery following the birth of her infant daughter Pearl. She refused to reveal the name of her child's father. She was forced to wear the Scarlet letter. At the end of the novel Dimmesdale climbs t...