Freedom at Midnight: Know the real story, reviews, cast, OTT and more about Nikkhil Advani¡¯s historical series

Freedom at Midnight: Nikkhil Advani¡¯s much-awaited series is finally out and early reviews have only good things to say. This highly anticipated project is a cinematic retelling of India¡¯s Partition that rules the pages of world history. Released on November 15, Freedom at Midnight has been produced by Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani under the banner of Emmay Entertainment in association with StudioNext.

Freedom at Midnight OTT and real story

This seven-episodic series is available to stream on Sony LIV in Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, and Bengali, with subtitles in English. For those who don¡¯t know, Freedom at Midnight is an adaptation of a book by the same name authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. The book recollects the events leading up to the Partition of India and Pakistan and the religious and socio-political dynamics of the era.

Freedom at Midnight cast and crew

The periodic drama features Sidhant Gupta as Jawaharlal Nehru, Chirag Vohra as Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Chawla as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Arif Zakaria as Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Ira Dubey as Fatima Jinnah, Malishka Mendonsa as Sarojini Naidu, Rajesh Kumar as Liaquat Ali Khan, KC Shankar as V.P. Menon, Luke McGibney as Lord Louis Mountbatten, Cordelia Bugeja as Lady Edwina Mountbatten, Alistair Finlay as Archibald Wavell, Andrew Cullum as Clement Attlee, Richard Teverson as Cyril Radcliffe among many others.

Freedom at Midnight has been written by Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Gundeep Kaur, Divya Nidhi Sharma, Revanta Sarabhai, and Ethan Taylor. Cinematographed by Malay Prakash and edited by Shweta Venkat, the runtime of each episode is between 37¨C48 minutes.

Freedom at Midnight review

A Times Now review of the series reads, ¡°Freedom at Midnight does its utmost to faithfully recreate the era with its casting, production design, and costumes. The makers have aimed to be authentic towards the past and remain quite respectful of the story at hand. Moreover, knowing that there is much more story to be told in the story of India's freedom, the series ends abruptly. Hopefully, there won't be too long a wait for part two.¡±

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