After producing Rocket Boys, the story of Homi Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai and India’s science and nuclear programme, Nikkhil Advani grabbed the opportunity to helm an adaptation of Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins’s book Freedom at Midnight.

Advani said he and Danish Khan, Business Head of Sony LIV and StudioNext, were looking for their next project when they realised they both loved "Freedom at Midnight", Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre's defining book on the transition of India from a British colony to a democracy.

MUMBAI: Sharvari got a chance to watch the series ”Freedom At Midnight”, with the maker Nikkhil Advani, whom the actress said is a “forever fan” of.

After Rocket Boys, which was created by Nikkhil Advani, the filmmaker joined hands again with SonyLIV for a historical political drama titled Freedom At Midnight which revolves around Mahatma Gandhi,

Sidhant Gupta, Chirag Vohra, Rajendra Chawla, Arif Zakaria, Ira Dubey Where: Sony LIV Rating: 2.5 stars The historical drama web series, based on the book of the same name authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins,

Few series possess the alchemy to distill history into art, to breathe life into sepia-toned recollections, and to stir the soul as deeply as Freedom at Midnight. Nikkhil Advanis

Nikkhil Advani's period drama captures the road to India's Independence and Partition, adapted from the 1975 bestseller.