Freedom at Midnight Trailer: Nikkhil Advani puts a deeper lens on Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah in series on India’s independence

The trailer of Nikkhil Advani’s Freedom At Midnight was unveiled by the makers on Saturday. The series is based on a book of the same name by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. Nikkhil serves as the showrunner and director of the show, which is written by Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Gundeep Kaur, Divya Nidhi Sharma, Revanta Sarabhai, and Ethan Taylor.

The trailer gives a glimpse into the world of the show. It is set just before India got Independence from Britain and puts a deeper lens on circumstances that led to it. Featuring important leaders who shaped history, primarily, Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the series chronicles the tumultuous times and gives a look into the many discussions and mediations that took place between different Indian and British leaders. There are monochrome visuals providing glimpses of the partition violence that took lives of thousands. A text appears in the trailer that reads, “The History You May Not Know, The History You Should Know.”

It 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 and Richard Teverson as Cyril Radcliffe, among others.

Freedom at Midnight is Produced by Emmay Entertainment (Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani) in association with StudioNext and Sony LIV. It will be released on Sony LIV on November 15.