Filmmaker Nikkhil Advani will be serving as the producer and showrunner of SonyLIV’s upcoming political thriller drama series ‘Freedom at Midnight’, the makers have announced.

StudioNxt and Advani Emmay Entertainment have come together to co-produce the series, which aims to bring alive defining moments from India’s partition.

‘Freedom at Midnight’ is based on a book of the same name by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. Advani is attached as the showrunner of the series. Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Karang Das, and Gundeep Kaur have penned the story.

According to PTI, ‘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’.

Commenting on the series, Advani said, the series is a riveting and emotional tale of an incident that ‘altered the course of the nation’.

“‘Freedom at Midnight’ is an attempt to bring to Indians the whole truth about the events that led us to freedom, the courage, and the hope instilled in people by the personages who shaped the new India. This is a story every Indian should know, and I feel honored to be able to tell it along with my partners, Monisha and Madhu, and the team of writers, along with StudioNext,” Advani added.

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.