In a recent interview with the cast members and director of ‘Freedom at Midnight,’ they discussed their characters and the roles they played in the series. Rajender Chawla shared his personal feelings about the partition, reflecting on the emotional weight it carried for him while shooting. Meanwhile, Chirag Vohra expressed his admiration for Mahatma Gandhi, stating that for him, “Mahatma Gandhi will always be a hero.”
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00:00It feels weird, I can't even hear myself but I am holding the mic.
00:08Wow, where do I start? You have asked such a deep and long question.
00:13Of course I had to surrender, there is no other way.
00:16The pace at which he works first of all, the only way is to surrender and that is his gift.
00:22And I am really thankful that I have met, I could meet with that, with his gift.
00:27Because it creates a firework, when you watch the series you will feel the rush, adrenaline.
00:33And people are used to that and it will take you as audiences.
00:36So I think apart from that, talking about the character,
00:41you know by understanding the character you understand yourself as well.
00:45I have understood that I am quite obsessed with the characters that I choose.
00:52Neither I leave them nor they leave me.
00:55And yeah, there is no limit.
00:59They have to live, they have to merge their thoughts with their own thoughts,
01:05align them and then believe.
01:08It's a game of make-believe at the end of the day.
01:11There is no other way, you have to believe enough to be able to become.
01:17Yeah, so I keep playing that game.
01:21I think there were moments when I actually felt that I am more comfortable in his skin than in my own.
01:30I really and there were no scary moments because he is so much better as a human being than I am I think.
01:38You know, so I was like, it's a consistent dialogue inside of you, you know, end of the day.
01:43And you know, you feel that essence and you feel that energy and people feel that through you
01:48and through the lens that captures you.
01:51And you know, and so like you said that there were times when I actually truly felt that
01:57am I more comfortable as Nehru?
01:59And you know, when I used to go home and then I used to just and then you just surrender.
02:04There's no other way.
02:05And they didn't give me much time.
02:07They got more time, I think, you know.
02:10As in character, it was not difficult because everything was written.
02:14Yes, as a personal level, if you are facing such situations that if you ever need it,
02:21then at what level do you handle it?
02:24That maturity, all this while playing Sardar Patel, in that process,
02:31there are many things, you take Nehru home every day,
02:35I used to take Sardar Patel home every now and then.
02:38But I feel also that for us, as a group of unit, there were times that we also,
02:47when Sardar has to take the line and say,
02:53when Sardar has to take the line and say,
03:06which is a straightforward line, which is, you know, we should move on.
03:10Let's move on with it.
03:15Even if we have to do this, let's do it.
03:19I remember Rajendra coming and saying,
03:21I am taking a call to which we had the speeches and the conversation and books,
03:30not only Freedom at Midnight,
03:32we were working with such material,
03:37where people can always stand up and say that this didn't happen.
03:41So we made sure that wherever the beats where we were taking a stand
03:45was backed by 2-3 different sources also.
03:48Sometimes their biographies, sometimes what had been written about Bapu and Mahatma Gandhi,
03:55some stuff that Nehru had written, letters to his daughter, everything.
04:00The team had read everything.
04:06And after that, there was a legal team also that was reading everything.
04:09So there was a lot of research.
04:16Yeah, so we had decided that when you are making a period piece,
04:21the first thing is to do everything in Sepia.
04:24Oh wow, it's Sepia.
04:27So we decided that there will be no Sepia.
04:30The reference for us became Crown.
04:34The show that Crown did, that became very, very strong,
04:39backlight coming out from the window, one source of light.
04:43Hardly any lighting was happening other than the normal practicals.
04:48So if Nehru is sitting next to a lamp, that is the light source.
04:51If Gandhi is sitting by a window, that is the light source.
04:55Also, because all these characters, if I just put them in silhouettes,
05:02you will know who it is.
05:03Have you seen the first episode?
05:05Yeah.
05:06So the beginning shot, the minute Malay, my DOP said that I want to shoot from the back.
05:11And the minute Chirag entered the frame, you don't have to know.
05:16You don't have to say, oh, this is a revelation of who? Gandhi.
05:19This is Mahatma Gandhi.
05:21Very beautifully this thing.
05:23And it is not the first sequence.
05:24It was not in the script.
05:25It's not the first sequence of the show.
05:27But when I saw it and the way it had been done,
05:30and the way it was evocative, it sets you up for, you know,
05:34that there is a man who is basically saying,
05:38I said it.
05:41Over.
05:42I said it.
05:43And the book ends.
05:44From this scene to the death of Gandhi is the last scene.
05:48So that became my, this thing, right?
05:51So the palette, Malay and Ayesha Dasgupta, who is the costume,
05:57and Priya and Surabhi and the production designers,
06:00they sat together and they said, okay, the Jinnah family will be this.
06:05The Congress will be this.
06:07The Muslim League will be this.
06:09We knew that Hindus and Sikhs are killing Muslims,
06:15and Muslims are killing Hindus and Sikhs,
06:17and there's riots happening, and there's madness happening.
06:21And the first thing I said, I don't want skullcap.
06:25I don't want skullcap.
06:27I don't want saffron.
06:32But how can we then do this?
06:34So then we gave it.
06:35But we made everything black and white.
06:40So for me, it became ki sab ek hai.
06:44Sab paagal hai.
06:45Sab ek doosre ko mar rahe hain.
06:47If you are brainwashed, I am brainwashed.
06:50If you are anxious, I am anxious.
06:52If you are afraid, I am afraid.
06:54If you are confused, I am confused.
06:56Kya hone wala hai? Kaise hone wala hai?
06:58Itni affai chal rahi hai.
07:00Which you will see in season two.
07:02Itni affai chal rahi hai.
07:04Sunna hai ki aapka ghar us taraf chala gaye.
07:07Are? You know?
07:09Kaise? How?
07:10Social media toh tha nahi.
07:11WhatsApp nahi tha.
07:12So it was just madness.
07:14And I wanted to capture that.
07:21Main sabse pehle toh yeh kaunga ki,
07:23Gandhi ji ke naam ke aage hum mahatma likhte hain.
07:26Jisse father of the nation kaha jaata hai.
07:30Aur maine apne bachpan se Gandhi ji ko
07:32hamesha usi tarah se dekha hai.
07:35Mere family me bhi,
07:37Mere paternal uncle hain.
07:42Wo freedom struggle mein rahe the.
07:44Movements mein.
07:45Aur wo jail bhi jaa chuka hain.
07:47Aur maine apna bachpan unko dekhte hue guzaara hai.
07:50So mere liye Gandhi ji hamesha hero the.
07:53Aur hamesha rahenge.
07:55So mere liye waisa kuch nahi tha ki
07:59In fact, freedom at midnight ke chalte
08:02Mere liye, mere dil mein unke liye sammaan aur badh gaya hai.
08:06Kyunki unke, yaani freedom jo last dino mein
08:10Jab unpe kya beeti hogi.
08:13Yaani mai samajhta hu ki,
08:15Aur uske baabajood bhi wo hamesha strong rahe ki
08:17Mai hamesha, mai ek dekhna chahta hu desh ko.
08:21Mai bata hua dahi dekhna chahta hain.
08:23Aur aaj ki tarikh mein,
08:28Kuch bhi opinion apna baan sakta hai.
08:31Par Gandhi ji ke intention ke baare mein
08:33Aapki do rai nahi ho sakti.
08:35Nation ke liye hamesha unhone,
08:37Hamesha nation ko aage rakha hai.
08:39Desh ko aage rakha hai.
08:40Aur desh ke liye hi unhone apni jaan diye.
08:42To, wo hamesha.
08:43Aur jinhone sirf,
08:45Hamare desh ke crore logon ko nahi,
08:47Duniya bhar mein logon ko inspire kiya hai.
08:49Aise insaan ke liye,
08:51Aapke dil mein koi aur bhavna ho hi nahi sakti.
08:55Huni hi nahi chahiye.
08:57So, mai samajhta hu ki wo hamesha se hero the aur hero rahenge.