Interestingly Sarita Chowdhary, the actress who shot to fame in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala and Kamasutra plays Mrs Indira Gandhi in <em>Midnight’s Children</em>. She has been kept completely out of all the publicity. “Deepa Mehta didn’t want to draw any attention to Sarita Chowdhary who plays Mrs Gandhi but looks nothing like her. The whole strategy was to not focus attention on the character and the actress playing the role,” said a source.