The story of Sony Liv’s web series ‘Freedom at Midnight’ is from our country only. But those who wrote this story were both British writers. Nikhil Advani’s team worked on the book of these two foreign writers and made a web series on it for the Indian audience. When asked what work is done on a foreign book and a foreign point of view before presenting it to the Indian audience, ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ fame director Nikhil Advani gave a very interesting answer regarding Bollywood content. .
Nikhil Advani said that entire Bollywood copies foreign content. The entire Bollywood is built on the basis that we have copied the content of the West. First Hollywood and now South. But I agree with your points. I am not making fun of this question at all. When we read the book, we knew that at that time it was Mountbatten, who was our last Viceroy. He loved the work of Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. He wrote his ‘Is Paris Burning?’ I had read it and then told him that I give you my journal, my records, notes, my letters which I had written to Nehru or to Gandhi, I also give you access to the records of our meetings. . You just write a book on how this huge change of power happened, how I did a good job.
The bigger picture often escapes those focused on the now.
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What does Nikhil Advani have to say?
Nikhil told that when we decided to make a web series on ‘Freedom at Midnight’, I, our writer, Danish (head of Sony TV), we all had decided that we would have to change the way of making this story. But there are many important things in this book. The events that took place from 16 August 1946 to 30 January 1948, due to which we got independence, due to which our country got divided into two parts. Even after years, we still talk about it and we should talk about it in future also. Because we should never forget our history. We have used references from this book, through which I wanted to take the audience into the rooms where these people are sitting and talking among themselves.
Gandhi was against partition
Nikhil further said that in this series you get to see that they are talking among themselves about what we should do next. Due to taking direct action, people of Punjab and Kolkata went mad and were killing each other. Lahore was burning. Murders were taking place in Rawalpindi. There was devastation in the entire country and these people felt that if we give Mohammad Ali Jinnah what he wants, then this violence will stop. Sardar Patel was very sure about this, Nehru had to be convinced about this. Gandhi Never agreed to this. Because he believed that partition would lead to even more destruction. We are telling you all these things in the series.