00:00The process was just to decide that we don't want it in a westernized concept.
00:09That was the first process.
00:11We decided the tone, the perspective, the gaze.
00:17If you have seen the three drops that have already come,
00:21and whatever we have put on social media,
00:26it is the history you must know.
00:28You may not know, but the history you should know.
00:30So, of course, Dominic Lapierre and Larry Collins have written the book Freedom at Midnight.
00:37Their biggest fans were Dickie Mountbatten.
00:42Their first books were Jerusalem and Is Paris Burning?
00:48Their biggest fans were Dickie Mountbatten.
00:51Mountbatten was a little proud that everything is about the British.
01:01The way he wore his uniform, the way he was a star of India,
01:07he thought that Dominic Lapierre and Larry Collins were going to write a book about him.
01:13Then Dominic Lapierre and Larry Collins discovered Mahatma Gandhi,
01:17Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel.
01:19Even the book suddenly turns into more relevant and colourful characters.
01:29Without Mountbatten's contribution, a lot of stuff would not have happened.
01:37Good as well as extremely horrible.
01:40That's the gaze.
01:43We decided that this story is from the point of view of India.
01:47India is saying that from August 16, 1946 to January 30, 1948, what happened to India?
01:59What led to the greatest moment of independence happening?
02:04And what led to the horrific partition?
02:06That is what the gaze says.
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