Making films or web series based on history and historical figures is always tricky. One doesn’t know what can hurt the ...
Historical drama series Freedom At Midnight by Nikkhil Advani has been receiving a lot of love from fans of the genre. As the ...
Now, it is the after life of its three important players -- Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru -- that lies in question. A moral distinction between good or evil calculated by a divine source which takes ...
Contentious issues like Gandhi choosing Nehru over Patel and his insistence on offering the PM’s chair to Jinnah have been deftly addressed. A seemingly insignificant line in a flashback ...
At the exact moment Nehru asks the Akalis what they want, half of it disintegrates and falls into the tea. The next shot is Jinnah in his garden, snipping a rose stem. There are six writers and ...
Rajendra Chawla and Sidhant Gupta as Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru Of course, Jinnah is shown as all-evil, but his motivations are established early on – he operates from a place of ego ...
Opposition MPs took potshots at the ruling BJP over a range of issues, including “discrimination” against members of the ...
Freedom At Midnight takes us back to the tumultuous era just before Partition where a select few decided the fate of India behind closed doors.
Arif Zakaria says he was fated to play Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 and the first ...
Sidhant Gupta as Jawaharlal Nehru, Chirag Vohra as Mahatma Gandhi, Rajendra Chawla as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Arif Zakaria as Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Ira Dubey as Fatima Jinnah. The various ...