Freedom At Midnight first teaser: Mahatma Gandhi chooses Nehru over Patel

The first teaser of Sony LIV’s historical-drama series Freedom At Midnight was unveiled by the makers on Tuesday. Created and directed by Nikhil Advani, the show is based on a book by the same name by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins.

The series features Sidhant Gupta of Jubilee fame, as Jawaharlal Nehru, Chirag Vohra as Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Chawla as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, among others.

The teaser shows Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel being unanimously elected as the Congress Party’s President. Jawaharlal Nehru, sitting beside him, pats his knee and congratulates him. We then see Mahatma Gandhi enter the room. He also congratulates Patel before giving a paper in his hand. It’s a resignation letter, hinting that Patel should resign from the post to make way for Nehru. “We need Patel but the country needs Nehru,” says Gandhi. As per the teaser, it seems like the show will delve into the political happenings before India gained Independence.

The show also features 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 and Richard Teverson as Cyril Radcliffe.

The story is penned by Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Gundeep Kaur, Divya Nidhi Sharma, Revanta Sarabhai, and Ethan Taylor.