On 30th July, the teaser of the web series titled Freedom at Midnight was launched. It is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language historical drama series. It is directed by Nikhil Advani and written by Abhinandan Gupta, Gundeep Kaur, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Divy Nidhi Sharma, Revanta Sarabhai and Ethan Taylor. This web series will release on SonyLIV.
This series features Sidhant Gupta as Jawaharlal Nehru, Chirag Vohra as Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Chawla as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Luke McGibney as Lord Louis Mountbatten, Cordelia Bugeja as Edwina Mountbatten, Malishka Mendonsa as Sarojini Naidu, Arif Zakaria as Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Ahalya Shetty as Indira Gandhi.
It revolves around the story of India's struggle for independence. It shows the events that took place during the partition of India and Pakistan, and the religious and socio-political dynamics of that era. The intricating teaser of this web series has raised the curiosity level and viewers want to know whether Freedom at Midnight is based on a real-life story or if it is based on a novel or a book.
Is Freedom at Midnight based on a true story?
The answer to this question is yes. This series is based on real-life events that took place during the Indian Independence era. This series is an adaption of the book titled ‘Freedom at Midnight’ written by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins.
This book was highly appreciated by the readers worldwide. One of the readers said, “There is no single passage in this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at most of the encounters, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.”
The series has been adapted by this book that narrates the events that took place 78 years ago at midnight on August 14, 1947. The book has narrated the price that was paid for the Independence of the country.
Freedom at Midnight is a true story of the events that took place during the Indian independence era, which began with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British in India, and ended with the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.