Editing Deepa Mehta (section)

===''Midnight's Children''===
{{Main|Midnight's Children (film)}}

Mehta directed ''[[Midnight's Children (film)|Midnight's Children]]'' after collaborating on the screenplay with the [[Midnight's Children|novel]]'s author, [[Salman Rushdie]].<ref name=visits>{{cite web |url=http://movies.indiatimes.com/International/Rushdie-visits-Mumbai-for-Midnights-Children-film-/articleshow/5432895.cms |title=Rushdie visits Mumbai for 'Midnight's Children' film |publisher=Movies.indiatimes.com |access-date=3 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114151659/http://movies.indiatimes.com/International/Rushdie-visits-Mumbai-for-Midnights-Children-film-/articleshow/5432895.cms |archive-date=14 January 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Subhash K Jha |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Im-a-film-buff-Rushdie/articleshow/5436509.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811030544/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-01-13/news-interviews/28121143_1_deepa-mehta-bt-midnight-s-children |url-status=live |archive-date=11 August 2011 |title=I'm a film buff: Rushdie |date=13 January 2010 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=3 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mendes|first1=Ana Cristina|last2=Kuortti|first2=Joel|date=21 December 2016|title=Padma or No Padma: Audience in the Adaptations of Midnight's Children|journal=The Journal of Commonwealth Literature|language=en|volume=52|issue=3|pages=501–518|doi=10.1177/0021989416671171|issn=0021-9894|hdl=10451/29281|s2cid=164759708|hdl-access=free}}</ref> [[Indian American]] actor [[Satya Bhabha]] played the role of Saleem Sinai<ref>{{cite news|title=Deepa finds Midnight's Children lead|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Deepa-finds-Midnights-Children-lead/articleshow/6386128.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503103606/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-08-21/news-interviews/28306314_1_salman-rushdie-s-midnight-s-children-saleem-sinai-imran-khan|url-status=live|archive-date=3 May 2012|access-date=9 April 2011|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=21 August 2010}}</ref> while other roles were played by [[Shriya Saran]], [[Seema Biswas]], [[Shabana Azmi]], [[Anupam Kher]], [[Siddharth Narayan]], [[Rahul Bose]], [[Soha Ali Khan]],<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Dreaming-of-Midnight-s-Children/563437/ Dreaming of Midnight's Children]</ref> [[Shahana Goswami]]<ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/Irrfan-moves-from-Mira-Nair-to-Deepa-Mehta/H1-Article1-499416.aspx Irrfan moves from Mira Nair to Deepa Mehta] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100304213538/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Irrfan-moves-from-Mira-Nair-to-Deepa-Mehta/H1-Article1-499416.aspx |date=4 March 2010 }}</ref> and [[Darsheel Safary]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Jha|first=Subhash K.|title= Darsheel Safary Darsheel Safary in Midnight's Children|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Darsheel-Safary-in-Midnights-Children/articleshow/7832012.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609143444/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-03-31/news-interviews/29365634_1_darsheel-safary-deepa-mehta-salman-rushdie-s-midnight-s-children|url-status=live|archive-date=9 June 2012|access-date=20 May 2011|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=31 March 2011}}</ref>

The film was released on 9 September 2012 at Toronto International Film Festival<ref>{{cite news|last=Nolen|first=Stephanie|title=Mehta at midnight|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/deepa-mehta-films-rushdies-midnights-children/article2021293/singlepage/#articlecontent|access-date=17 May 2011|newspaper=Globe and Mail|date=15 May 2011|archive-date=23 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523090739/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/deepa-mehta-films-rushdies-midnights-children/article2021293/singlepage/#articlecontent|url-status=dead}}</ref> and would be nominated for Best Motion Picture along with 7 other nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards.<ref name=":1" />