Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie's justifiably famous novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker of Bookers, marking it as the best book written in the British commonwealth in 25 years.  It has made an enduring impact on literature, and now it is a film directed by Canada's Deepa Mehta.

The movie is not bad, per se.  It was adapted by Rushdie himself, and therefore follow…