Film Based on Rushdie Novel Survives India's Censors A movie adaptation of Salman Rushdie's 1980 novel, "Midnight's Children," - whose magical-realist exploration of the partition of British India was highly praised but also generated a libel suit by Indira Gandhi that Mr. Rushdie lost - will be shown in India without any cuts from the country's film review board, the BBC reported. India here we come-intact! Great news," the film's director, Deepa Mehta, wrote on Twitter. Midnight's Children went through Indian Censor board without one picture cut. Salman Rushdie and I thrilled. The film, which is scheduled for release in India early next year, was shown in September at the Toronto Film Festival and was also recently screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala, in the southwest of India. The filmmakers initially feared that the movie would be kept out of India altogether because of its critical portrayal of Mrs. Gandhi, who was India's prime minister for 15 years.