On being requested concerning the casting course of, Nikkhil mentioned, “The second you inform actors that for one and a half yr they can’t do anything, it narrows all the way down to few actors. There are just a few who’re prepared to conform to that. I informed Chirag that I don’t wish to see Gandhiji in another present or movie. Secondly, we needed to see how shut bodily they have been to the characters. Jagdish dada, who was our hair and make-up particular person would sit with us. I noticed Rajendra in Vedaa as Sharvari’s dad and Siddhant has Nehru’s nostril…”
The collection is predicated on a ebook of the identical identify authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. Requested how he introduced an Indian perspective to the present, contemplating the ebook was not written by Indians, he mentioned, “Freedom at Midnight was first printed in 1975. It’s an unimaginable ebook. I prefer it as a result of it doesn’t take itself too significantly. Loads of books have been written on India’s freedom that are in all probability higher. However for a younger teenage boy, it was an unimaginable learn. It felt like a screenplay. I questioned why nobody is making something on this. There isn’t any denying that Mountbatten beloved Is Paris Burning? and O Jerusalem!, the earlier two books written by Collins and Lapierre. So, he known as them and requested them to put in writing about how he was concerned within the freedom motion. Mountbatten was too stuffed with himself. Whereas the ebook has all his accounts, they do not know what occurs after fifteenth August. That they had no entry to that info. So, the present is from the angle of India. India, as a rustic, is telling what occurred together with her.”
Nikkhil additionally feels that the relevance of telling a narrative at the moment and age is that individuals have corrupted the phrase patriotism. “I’m so disturbed that the phrase and the idea of patriotism has been fully corrupted by us, by trendy society. The present is about patriotism as a result of it doesn’t inform anybody to do patriotic issues. It says how we are able to all work to make a greater India. I’m not keen on stepping into the idea of jingoism. If one needs to be a jingoist, I do not care. For me, my father going out to work day by day to take care of his youngsters from Grant Highway Station to Thane is patriotic.”
Freedom at Midnight is at present streaming on Sony Liv.
