Jubilee, a sumptuous 10-episode series, is set in the Hindi film industry of the late 1940s and 50s. Co-created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Soumik Sen and written by Atul Sabharwal, Jubilee takes a long, unhurried look at the studio system that existed back then in Bombay. This is backdropped against the pained emergence of the Indian nation-state in the aftershocks of Partition.
Vikramaditya Motwane, who has directed all episodes of Jubilee, the setting and time period also held a personal connection. In 1951, his grandfather, Harnam Motwane, produced a black-and-white film called Andolan, starring Kishore Kumar. The Motwanes were the owners of Chicago Radio, which manufactured public broadcast systems and had priceless recordings of the All-India Congress committee sessions.
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