CONFIRMED: Deepa Mehta and Salman Rushdie are coming to TIFF 2012

Toronto-based, Academy Award-nominated director Deepa Mehta and Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie are both in town for the hugely anticipated Midnight’s Children, Mehta’s adaptation of Rushdie’s 1980 novel about India’s transition from British colonialism to independence. Can it possibly live up to the source material? The novel won the 1981 Booker Prize and then the 2008 “Booker of Bookers”—which means we’re fulling expecting both a Golden Globe and an Oscar nod, at the very least.

(Images: Mehta, IncMan; Rushdie, David Shankbone)