OOn a hot April morning, filmmaker Nikhil Advani looks into an antique wooden mirror while trimming his hair and beard in the middle of the road. The said road forms part of the spectacular scenery for Advani’s passion project Freedom at Midnight, a SonyLIV series that will release on November 15. Based on the book of the same name by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, the show traces key events in India’s turbulent battle for independence since the beginning of the year. with Direct Action Day in 1946 and culminated in Mahatma Gandhi Assassination Day. It’s 7.30am, but Advani is awake as he gives a tour of the set, appropriately soot to show the aftermath of the Partition riots. “Just one line [drawn on the map]20 million people were evicted and resettled across borders. It’s crazy, says Advani.
