Nikkhil Advani Talks ‘Freedom At Midnight’ Season 2 & Aaron Sorkin’s Influence After Telling Story Of Indian Independence

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The team behind SonyLIV drama Freedom at Midnight are moving the Indian Independence story on for its second season following a strong response to Season 1.

The story, directed and showrun by Nikkhil Advani, is set to go from the tense negotiations around of the Indian Partition of 1947 to the refugee crisis that followed the borders being redrawn, with Season 1 ending on a cliffhanger after launching this month and setting the scene for the second. “The basic objective for now to ensure that this show travels as much as it can,” said Danish Khan, Executive VP and Business Head at SonyLIV and its in-house production arm, StudioNext. “Obviously, that brings larger subscriptions and bigger business.

If we can do that, Season 2 will even become bigger.” Season 2 will comprise eight episodes and likely roll out next year. Khan said anticipation for the second run was building, but that “as a first step, we have got the thumbs up for the show.

Nikkhil has done the job. Now it is for the SonyLiv team to take this story forward to different geographies and across India.” For SonyLIV, that has meant dubbing the Hindi-language drama in Malayalam and Telugu, and offering overdubbed versions that replace English-speaking roles with Indian languages.