Actor Silambarasan released the official teaser of N S Ponkumar directed period film, ‘August 16, 1947’, featuring actor Gautham Karthik in the lead.
Interestingly, the is being produced by ace director A R Murugadoss along with Om Prakash Bhatt and Narsiram Choudhary. The teaser shows that the story of the film is set at a time when India was on the verge of gaining Independence.
It also beautifully shows that at a time when there was no television or photography, how some people, down the south, believed Gandhi to be a tall, strong, muscular, well built man whom the British feared.