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Jubilee actor Sidhant Gupta is all set to play former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a new web series titled Freedom at Midnight. The maker of the show, Nikhil Advani unveiled the show's first look on social media on Thursday and has Gupta transforming himself to play India's first PM. The stills have Nehru, Gandhi and Sardar Patel engaged in a conversation. 

While Gupta plays Nehru, Chirag Vohra of Scam 1992 fame plays Mahatma Gandhi. Popular TV actor Rajendra Chawla is playing Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in the series, which aims to bring alive defining moments from India’s partition. 

StudioNext and Advani’s Emmay Entertainment are co-producing the show, based on the book of the same name by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins.

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Advani is attached as the showrunner and director of the series. The story is penned by Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Gundeep Kaur, Divya Nidhi Sharma, Revanta Sarabhai, and Ethan Taylor.

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According to the makers, Freedom at Midnight is an epic political thriller drama that highlights “several incidents from the year of India’s independence and interconnected stories about crucial events and personalities who played a significant role in writing the country’s history as we know today." 

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Advani said Freedom at Midnight is a profound tribute to the “luminaries of our freedom movement — Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel”.

Freedom at Midnight is produced by Monisha Advani and Madhu Bhojwani in association with StudioNext and Sony LIV.

Advani was previously attached as a creator and producer on SonyLIV’s Rocket Boys, which followed the life and efforts of Indian nuclear physicists Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai between 1940 and 1960.

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(With agency inputs)