Mumbai: Web Series Title: Freedom at Midnight Season 1 (7 Episodes)
Cast: Siddhant Gupta, Chirak Vora, Rajendra Chawla, Arif Zakaria, Luke McGibney and others
Producers: Monisha Advani, Nikkhil Advani, Siddharth, Madhu Bhojwani
Direction: Nikkhil Advani
Music: Ashutosh Pathak
OTT: Sony Live (Streaming from November 15)
In the web series season, those who are trying to do something new are choosing history as their subject. It is one thing to say what we don’t know, it is another thing to say what we know. Here is another thing. Another way is to find some unknown aspect of what we know. We all know about India’s freedom struggle. But in the race for independence, the country was also divided. Freedom at Midnight is a web series that specifically deals with the history of that partition.
There have been many films, serials and documentaries showing India’s freedom struggle in the past. Many people were impressed by the character of Gandhi. But Freedom at Midnight is different from all these. Director Nikhil Advani has limited his story to the important years between 1944-1947, while no attempt has been made to show the entire Indian freedom struggle in this web series. The actors selected for the roles have also done a great job. The emotions of the main characters like Gandhi, Nehru, Patel and Jinnah are important in this. The actors selected for the respective roles have given their best performance. In other words, Nikhil Advani has achieved that level from them.
Everyone’s goal is independence. But it is interesting to see that there are some people who want the partition of the country and there are some people who want to keep the country united. The screenplay is particularly impressive in this original series, which unfolds with the story between 1940-47. Telling the previous story (1917-1920) before the title. The discussion about the period of the division of the country after the title was impressive. The director did not try to show anyone as a hero or a villain in this. He said it strongly about whose version, whose ideology. Although the English spoken by the British can cause trouble here and there.
This web series stars Chirag Vohra as Mahatma Gandhi, Siddhant Gupta as Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajendra Chawla as Vallabhbhai Patel, Arif Zakaria as Mohammad Jinnah, Luke McGibney as Louis Mountbatten, Derdelia Bugeja as Lady Mountbatten, Sarojini Naidu – Malishka Mendonsa.
⇢ For such stories, the selection of actors and their costumes, surroundings and buildings that reflect the atmosphere of the time is also important. In that regard, the concerned departments have shown their talent. India of the 1940s was shown blindfolded. It is clear that the web series team has done a lot of research on Viceroy House, Congress offices and other places.
