There aren’t many Indian filmmakers who are known in the international circuit. By that yardstick, Deepa Mehta represents the minority in world cinema. And she’s well aware of the responsibility as well as the challenges such recognition entails. One such challenge for the Canada-based auteur was to adapt Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children on the big screen. In a tete-a-tete, Deepa expresses her thoughts, her equation with the controversial writer and a lot more...