US Edition'Freedom At Midnight 2' Web-Series Review: Nikkhil Advani's Show About India's Independence Is Better than Season One
The series explores the political struggles and communal violence during India’s 1947 independence, showing how leaders’ decisions led to a costly national birth, based on a bestselling book.
- This year, Freedom At Midnight season 2 began streaming on SonyLIV, created and directed by Nikkhil Advani about India’s last months before independence and Partition.
- Riding on Collins and Lapierre’s reconstruction, the show adapts their account to reconstruct the end of the British Raj and explain the conflicting threads behind independence and Partition.
- Radcliffe’s border drawing is shown through the chaos of immediate Partition, depicting the sudden border announcement, mass migration, Kashmir, princely states, and the Nehru–Patel split with refugee trains and riots.
- Critics argue the season is essential viewing because contemporaries of 1947 still remember those years, and the series underscores the human cost shaping statehood, identity and faith today.
- While performances drew praise, some casting and portrayal choices divided critics, who noted sympathetic treatment of Madanlal Pahwa and awarded the season a 3‑out‑of‑five rating.
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Advani on 'Freedom at Midnight 2': Nehru-Patel fight scenes toughest
New Delhi: For filmmaker Nikkhil Advani, the biggest challenge while working on the second part of “Freedom at Midnight”, his ambitious 14-episode series chronicling the story of the final months before India’s independence and its immediate aftermath, was to shoot the scenes where Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel are not on talking terms. The second and final part of the series, which premiered on Sony Liv on Friday, dives d…
‘Freedom at Midnight’ Season 2 series review: Nikkhil Advani hits the sweet spot between text and context
Intense, reflective, but selective in its depiction of events and agent provocateurs, Nikkhil Advani's ‘Freedom at Midnight’ season 2 humanises political icons and puts their era-defining decisions in perspective
Freedom At Midnight Season 2 review: Serious but not heavy, 2026 already delivers one of its best series
Freedom At Midnight 2 review: I was riveted in this season of Freedom At Midnight, which manages to sustain its tone-- as serious as befits the subject without getting all heavy about it, lacing it with a degree of levity-- and it will be one of my favourites this year, which has just about begun.
'Freedom At Midnight 2' Web-Series review: Nikkhil Advani's show about India's independence is better than season one
The standout performance here comes from Arif Zakaria, who plays Jinnah. Ever since his haunting performance in Vikram Bhatt’s Haunted and that too in 3D (no puns), even his pious characters suggest something devilish
'I think everybody should watch and then...': Nikkhil Advani breaks silence on Vivek Agnihotri's 'Freedom at Midnight' criticism
The second season of Freedom at Midnight, directed by Nikkhil Advani, is now streaming on SonyLIV.Based on the acclaimed book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, the show is an epic political thriller that vividly portrays the pivotal events of 1947. The series intricately weaves together the s
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