And I think they approached Julian Schnabel, Lou Reed, and me. Rushdie has said that he was approached for a cameo in Talladega Nights: 'They had this idea, just one shot in which three very, very unlikely people were seen as NASCAR drivers. In September 2008, and again in March 2009, he appeared as a panellist on the HBO program Real Time with Bill Maher. He appears in the role of Helen Hunt's obstetrician-gynecologist in the film adaptation (Hunt's directorial debut) of Elinor Lipman's novel Then She Found Me. On, Rushdie was a guest host on The Charlie Rose Show, where he interviewed Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, whose 2005 film, Water, faced violent protests. He had a cameo appearance in the film Bridget Jones's Diary based on the book of the same name, which is itself full of literary in-jokes. Rushdie includes fictional television and movie characters in some of his writings.
In that sense, I’ve never felt that I’ve written an autobiographical character.'
However, the author has refuted the idea of having written any of his characters as autobiographical, stating, 'People assume that because certain things in the character are drawn from your own experience, it just becomes you. The character of Saleem Sinai has been compared to Rushdie.
Midnight's Children follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age in the history of the Indian sub-continent and the birth of the modern nation of India. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 19, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. His next novel, Midnight's Children (1981), catapulted him to literary notability. Rushdie's first novel, Grimus (1975), a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics.
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