About Freedom at Midnight
| Title: | Freedom at Midnight |
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| Plot: | Freedom at Midnight is the electrifying story of India's struggle for independence. Based on the bestselling book of the same name, it recounts the partition of India and Pakistan, and the religious and socio-political dynamics of the era. |
| Cast: | Sidhant Gupta, Chirag Vohra, Rajendra Chawla, Arif Zakaria, Ira Dubey, Rajesh Kumar |
| Director: | Nikkhil Advani |
| Cinematography: | Malay Prakash |
| Editor: | Shweta Venkat Mathew |
Freedom at Midnight
Bharathi Pradhan
Lehren.com
A Poignant Reminder That Freedom Came At A Cost
'Freedom at Midnight' explores India's 1947 Partition, depicting political drama among Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, and Patel.
Much of our history was unknown in 1975 when Freedom At Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, the bestseller documenting the backstage events that led to the bloody Partition of India, was first published. In recent years, there has been such a glut of printed and visual information on what happened in 1947 that Indians are familiar with most of the Nehru-Gandhi-Patel-Jinnah parleys which director Nikkhil Advani sets out to preserve on film.