SonyLIV Joins Hands With Nikkhil Advani For Screen Adaptation Of Freedom At Midnight

To mark the two years in its new avatar, SonyLIV 2.0 is expanding its content offering with 50+ Hindi and 50+ other language premium content. SonyLIV will soon foray into Tamil originals with its first web-series Meme Boys, Tamil Rockerz among others; followed by originals in Telugu and Malayalam.

SonyLIV’s Hindi slate includes  Tanaav, produced  by  the quality-conscious Applause Entertainment. Directed by   Sudhir Mishra and co-directed by Sachin Mamta Krishn

it stars Manav Vij, Sumit Kaul, Rajat Kapoor, Shashank Arora, Arbaaz Khan, Zarina Wahab, Ekta Kaul, Waluscha De Sousa, Danish Hussain, Satyadeep Mishra, Sukhmani Sadana, Sahiba Bali, Amit Gaur, Arslan Goni, Rockey Raina, M.K. Raina, Sheen Dass and Aryaman Seth

Brief: Set against the idyllic backdrop of Kashmir in the year 2017, Tanaav tells the story of a Special Unit, their bravery and courage. Delving into the human drama behind the ideologies, dealing with complex emotions and flawed characters, all of whom share the same feelings of love, loss, betrayal and revenge, Tanaav is a socio-political action drama with family at its core.

      Director  Nikkhil Advani and writers Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Kareng Das and Gundeep Kaur’s adaptation of  Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins  legendary book, 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.

  In addition, the   dramedy Dr. Arora is forthcoming show from SonyLIV documenting the interesting life and times of a travelling sex consultant played by the very talented Kumud Mishra in a country where people are either too scared off talking about intimate problems or treat it like a taboo.

 Avrodh 2 directed  by   Raj Acharya and produced  by Applause Entertainment stars  Abir Chatterjee, Mohan Agashe, Neeraj Kabi, Anant Mahadevan, Aahana Kumra, Rajesh Khattar, Sanjay Suri.It is  inspired by 9th chapter of Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh’s book India’s Most Fearless 2.

   The second season  of  Maharani 2  begins one year after Rani(Huma Qureshi)  sent Bheema Bharti(Sohum Shah) to jail from Assembly floor and promised a fair and transparent administration to people of Bihar, she is struggling on both personal and professional front.

  Applause Entertainment’s  SCAM 2003: The Telgi Story  directed  by   Hansal Mehta and Tushar Hiranandani adapted from the Hindi-language book Reporter Ki Diary from journalist Sanjay Singh,  revolves around Abdul Karim Telgi, who became the mastermind behind one of the most ingenious schemes in Indian history that spread across multiple states and shook the entire country.

Other  new webseries  on SonyLIV’s anvil are  Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Fadu , Onir’s  Pulwama Key No 1026, Nikkhil Advani’s Rocket Boys 2, Sudhir Mishra’s Jehanabad – Jail Break and Heart Break,Vikas Bahl’s  Good Bad Girl, Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Garmi, Nila Madhav Panda’s Jengaburu – A Billion Dollar Curse, Manish Hariprasad’s   Main Sahir Hoon, Sudhir Mishra’s  Summer of ’77  and  Rahul Dholakia’s  India’s First Election.