What with Rani Mukherjee shifting focus from TV to the silver screen again? Well the reports are rife with the news.

That director Deepa Mehta has confirmed the news that indeed she and Rani had definitely met author Salman Rushdie in Toronto recently.

The cute and friendly actress is to be cast in the film version of the book Midnight’s Children written by the Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie.

The meeting was held to discuss the screenplay adaptation of the movie. According to news doing the rounds the cast has yet to be finalized.

But the final ones who are already there are names like Of course Rani Mukherjee, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas and Nandita Das.

It really has been a long absence from the silver screen for the queen of hearts Rani Mukherjee, and it would be a pleasure.

For all her fans waiting to see her again after her role in Dil Bole Haddippa. The shooting for the film begins some time in September this year.