MUMBAI: Deepa Mehta‘s film based on Salman Rushdie‘s book Midnight‘s Children finally received the green signal by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) without a single cut.

The movie is an adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie‘s 1980 Booker Prize-winning book of the same name.

Mehta tweeted, "India here we come - intact! Great news - ‘Midnight‘s Children‘ went through Indian censor board ...... without one pic cut. Salman Rushdie and I THRILLED."

The film‘s cast includes Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Ronit Roy, and Darsheel Safary.

Midnight‘s Children is shot mostly in Sri Lanka and follows the story of a boy, Saleem Sinai, who is born at the exact time and date when India attained independence at midnight on 15 August 1947.