The Midnight's Children, which was showcased at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Canada, will release worldwide, in October or November. However, according to reports, this Deepa Mehta directorial, hasn't got an Indian distributor yet, as its humoured to be blamed on insecure politicians.

This film is based on the 1981 Prize-winning novel, by author Salman Rushdie, in the same name and narrates about highly critical issues, on the late prime minister, Indira Gandhi, who suspended democracy in India between 1975 and 1977 in a period known as "the Emergency”.

According to the Toronto Film Festival, the new film is "an engrossing allegorical fantasy in which children born on the cusp of India's independence from Britain are endowed with strange, magical abilities".

Both Mehta and Salman are considered controversial figures in India. The author's 1988 book The Satanic Verses remains banned in India. In January he withdrew from the Jaipur Literature Festival after reports of a death threat. Mehta was prevented by some Hindu groups from filming Water, in the Indian city of Varanasi, as it was based on a lesbian theme.

The film was shot in Sri Lanka, where the government came under pressure from Iran, to stop the project.