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Nikkhil Advani recently opened up about the drastic change in his projects, from romantic Bollywood films such as Kal Ho Na Ho to his recent productions
such as Airlift and now directing season 2 of his SongLIV series Freedom At Midnight. He specified the importance of creating a legacy, 'mai peeche kya chor raha hu.' He mentioned about being remembered for his projects and also expressed his wish to work with Shah Rukh Khan for a terrorism, war film in the future.
Nikkhil Advani wants to do war film with SRK
While exclusively talking to us, Nikkhil Advani said, "Har filmmaker/storyteller ki life me stages aate hai. Kal Ho Na Ho when I did more than 20 years back, at that time we were younger, more hopeful, love was an important thing for us."
He further went on to mention that he along with Shah Rukh Khan were working on a terrorism story. "The kind of stories I want to tell now is more about legacy, mai kya peeche chor kar jaa raha hu o that people continue to say ki 'Nikkhil Advani ne banaya tha'."
He is currently working on an OTT series Freedom At Midnight which is set to return for season 2 this month.
Nikkhil wanted to make Freedom At Midnight since he read the book, 12-15 years back...
Further continuing the conversation, he boldly mentioned about making Freedom At Midnight since the read the book of the same name, authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. He mentioned reading it 12-15 years back. "Mai humesha se cahta tha mughe ye mauka mile," he concluded.
Check out the complete interview here:
More about Freedom At Midnight
The first season of Freedom at Midnight premiered on November 15, 2024. The first part concluded with seven episodes. The second season, set to release on January 9, will pick up where it left off with the announcement of the Partition. Much of the ensemble cast of Freedom at Midnight returns, including Sidhant Gupta, Chirag Vohra, Rajendra Chawla, Arif Zakaria, Ira Dubey, KC Shankar, RJ Malishka, Rajesh Kumar, Luke McGibney, Andrew Cullum, Richard Teverson, Alistair Finlay, and Cordelia Bugeja. The SonyLIV series is produced by Emmay Entertainment in association with StudioNext.
