- Title: The Riddle Of Midnight
- Date: 15th December 1989
- Summary: "THE CROWD - THAT IS TO SAY, TUMULT, CONFLICT, EEXCESS AND SHEER, OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF NUMBERS-IS THE CENTARL,INESCAPABLE FACT OF INDAIN LIFE.BUT HOW CAN ONE UNDERSTAND SUCH A MULTITUDE? WHERE IN THE MIDST OF SO MANY CONTRADICTIONS, IS MEANING? THIS IS THE RIDDLE THAT NOVELIST SALMAN RUSHDIE SETS OUT TO CONFRONT IN THIS FILM. ADAPTED FROM HIS NOVEL "MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN", IN WH.HE INVENTED A GENERATION OF MAGIC CHILDREN,THE CHILDREN OF THE 1ST HR.OF INDIA'S INDEPENDENCE. THRU'THE EYES & EXPERIENCE OF THIS GENERATION,THE FILM ATTEMPTS TO GIVE SHAPE & ACTUALITY TO THE IMMENSITY OF INDIA & TO LOOK AT THE'STATE OF THE NATION' AS MIG HT BE SEEN THRU' THE EYES OF ORDINARY INDIANS OF WIDELY DIFFERING PERSONALITIES, BACKGROUNDS AND FAITHS.
- Description:DRAMA Documentary DERIVED FROM SALMON RUSHDIE'S BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE,WHICH EXPLORES POST PARTITION INDIA THROUGH THE GENERATION BORN SINCE INDEPENDENCE.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Antelope (UK) LTD
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:15/12/1989
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1980s