COLOMBO- under the veil of secrecy, the first film adaptation of the famous novel by the controversial author Salman Rushdie "Midnight children" has finished shooting in Sri Lanka.
Director Canadian Deepa Mehta chose the South Asian island as a location instead of the India or Pakistan, where the book is defined, to avoid problems with religious fundamentalists.
"It"? s received the Muslims, "Mehta said the Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, who obtained access to all before the end of the filming Sunday." "" And I'm Hindu. ?
Rushdie received a fatwa of Islamic regime of the Iran in 1989 condemning him to death for his novel "The Satanic Verses", which has forced the British writer to live in hiding under the protection of the police for years.
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Despite forcing all the production team and distribution to sign confidentiality agreements, the three-month shoot was almost déraillée when word made it to the Iran, a close ally in more isolated Sri Lanka.
After the filing of a complaint from Tehran, Sri Lankan authorities reverse their approval for the production, leaving Mehta stunned a few days in the work on what it described as its largest of the film.
She appealed against the ban of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, who agreed to allow the filming to continue.
"The President listened to those who were for and against the film and ordered the drives to continue," said an official of the Office of Rajapakse, who asked not be named.
Sri Lankan team of the Film production company, who coordinated the production, confirmed the shooting had been produced despite the objections of the Iran weekend.
"We have taken great care to avoid attracting controversy, but the Iranians were discovered on this subject," Director of the company Divraj Perera told AFP.
600-Page novel acclaimed Rushdie, who won the Booker prize in 1981, was considered almost impossible because of the complexity of the plot and the wide range of characters and places.
A television adaptation of five parts previously written by the author of Indian origin was never produced.
The novel deals with the history before and after the independence of the India through the eyes of the Saleem Sinai, whose birth coincides with that of the independent India on the stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947.
In 1993, he was chosen as "Booker of Bookers" - the best novel to have won the award to date.
"The heart and soul of the book is intact, and his humour and I hope that its contents too emotional", Mehta said Tuesday The Times of India.
The Director, whose previous work will include the trilogy of "fire", "Land" and "Water", admitted that the pressure of the project had weighed on its approach to the end of filming.
"I thought:" Oh my God, it is going to be crappy. ". What I did? The beloved book of all time. I? m an idiot. Salman will hate it?, "she told the Globe and Mail."
She SearchText Rushdie in desperation, he would have answered: "whenever I finish a book, I think that it?". crap s. "and sometimes it is not".
The film, which is in English, Hindi and Urdu, will be released as "Winds of change" in the first half of 2012 and was prévendu in many countries, including the Canada, Great Britain, France and the Japan.
Rushdie wrote the script and was involved in the choice of actors, which include Seema Biswas, who has played in "Water of Mehta", Rahul Bose and Shahana Goswami.
Protagonist Saleem Sinai should be played by newcomer Satya Bhabha.
Mehta is no stranger to controversy. It crossed Hindu fundamentalists in 1996 when his film "fire" was released, depicting two stepsisters who become emotionally close and then physically involved.
Cinemas were burned and his latest film "Water", produced in 2005, has been delayed for years demonstrators in the northeast of the burned India the game and threatened to rape the female expressed.
She said confidentiality agreements that all participants were forced to sign during the filming of his latest project was needed to prevent other events.
"We really wanted to make this film," she told the Globe and Mail. "And the price is silence
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