Mehta wraps shooting of ''Midnight''s Children'' film adaptation

Toronto, May 19 (PTI) India-born Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta has finished shooting for the first film adaption of controversial author Salman Rushdie''s 1981 novel ''Midnight''s Children'' at a secret location in Sri Lanka to keep the fundamentalists at bay.The filming had to be kept ultra-secret, hidden away in Sri Lanka instead of India or Pakistan as both the director and writer of the film are controversial figures."He''s got the Muslims....and I''ve got the Hindus," Globe and Mail quoted Mehta as saying. ...