Rushdie story to become film
A year after Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece, “Midnight’s Children,” was turned into a play, an Indian filmmaker is set to turn one of the novelist’s short stories into a movie.
“The Firebird’s Nest” explores a romance between an older man and a younger woman, but the director, Apoorva Lakhia, said the first celluloid version of any work by the Booker Prize winner is not based on Rushdie’s life.
Padma Lakshmi, the companion of the 56-year-old Bombay-born writer, is at least 20 years younger than he is.
Lakshmi, a model turned actress, will play the lead role in the English-language film, whose screenplay is to be written by Rushdie. The movie, to be shot in India and New York, will focus on the romance between a charismatic young Indian-born woman settled in New York and a charming older man in India.
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