Freedom At Midnight 2 Cast/Actors: Sidhant Gupta, Chirag Vohra, Rajendra Chawla, Luke McGibney, Cordelia Bugeja, Arif Zakaria and Ira Dubey
Freedom At Midnight 2 Director: Nikkhil Advani
Freedom At Midnight 2 Production House: Emmay Entertainment
Freedom At Midnight 2 Release Date: January 9, 2026
Freedom At Midnight 2 Available On: Sony LIV OTT Platform
Freedom At Midnight 2 Released/Available In Languages: Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi and Bengali
Freedom At Midnight 2 Number Of Episodes: 7
Freedom At Midnight 2 Episode Duration: 60 Minutes (Approx Each Episode)
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Clueless Sir Cyril Radcliffe calmly cut his steak on the flight out of India, leaving behind a nation he’d just carved into two.
Louis Mounbatten (Luke McGibney) became India’s first Governor-General, content that the Partition had happened without spilling a drop of British blood. But what about Indian blood, his wife countered.
Jinnah (Arif Zakaria) crowned himself Qaed-e-Azam, tore himself from beloved Bombay to settle down in Karachi, hid his illness which, if made public, may not have led to a new Muslim country, and ego-butted Mountbatten as his equal in rank. With sister Fatima (Ira Dubey) as his ally all the way.
Like lovers, an inseparable Muslim army man and a Sikh colleague, parted painfully as Jinnah enforced the division of the army.
Nehru (Sidhant Gupta) is torn, his idea of secularism paramount. Patel (Rajendra Chawla) is pragmatic. “You don’t teach moral science in a class for politics.” Jinnah eyeing three princely states with Muslim rulers; Sardar Patel checkmating him with strategy.
Nehru and Patel drifting apart. Gandhi (Chirag Vohra) swearing that Partition will happen over his dead body.
But Partition happens, he’s still alive.
Showrunner and director Nikkhil Advani with half-a-dozen writers, turns the pages of Dominique Lappiere and Larry Collins’ book into a tense cinematic piece with the pain of pre-Partition negotiations and ponderings surfacing with every main character.
In this, he gets the help of a perfectly cast array of actors. Sidhant Gupta, Chirag Vora, Rajendra Chawla, Arif Zakaria and Luke McGibney make the leaders who played dramatic parts in the Partition story seem like flesh-and-blood men who’ve steered the country’s history through a tumultuous chapter. They make the narration entirely credible, almost alive.
It is after Independence is gained that Nikkhil loosens his grip with the focus entirely on Gandhi’s assassination, the men behind the plot glancing around furtively like villains from a routine Hindi movie. The pace drops with an inclination to show blood-spill as one-sided intolerance – a train to Pakistan packed with fleeing innocents, targeted by turbaned killers. There’s even a sequence where Suhrawardy, known as the Butcher of Bengal, is shown willing for communal amity. But the other side walking out of the meeting.
The build-up to Gandhi’s killing also leaves no room for a glimpse at the other side, a defence that was proscribed for 50 years but has been in the public space for a while now.
Nothing justifies an assassination. But it’s like showing Indira Gandhi’s assassination without a pre-amble, without a sound background look at what led to the tragedy.
Freedom At Midnight 2 – Watch it or not? The lifelike sequences around the sleepless nights endured by the main leaders of the Partition and the performances by the main cast make it an important cinematic document.
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