‘Freedom at Midnight’ review: Drama, debate and bloodshed as India throws off colonial rule
The twain are not to meet. Viceroy Louis Mountbatten (Luke McGibney) and his wife Edwina (Cordelia Bugeja) arrive in India to broker peace, instead finding themselves mired in acrimony. Mountbatten’s “Operation Seduction” – his attempt to build consensus between warring factions – becomes a mess of gargantuan proportions.