August 16 1947 Movie Review: High production value makes this worth a watch – TOI Etimes
August 16 1947 story: An atrocious British basic is accountable for a secluded fictional village in pre-Independence Madras. The story spans three days and follows the illiterate and oppressed villagers’ lives as they fail to obtain the information of India’s Independence as a result of isolation. An area lout, Param, leads a revolt to free all of them.
August 16 1947 assessment: What does freedom actually imply to a populace shackled in oppression for hundreds of years? Can the Britishers leaving the village finish the deep-seated psyche of slavery and worry as shortly and simply? Debutant director NS Ponkumar’s Tamil movie dubbed in multi-languages, August 16 1947, seeks to reply this by means of the story of a fictional land, Sengadu, within the Madras Presidency earlier than India’s Independence. The village is surrounded by unkind forests and led by a tyrannical British Basic, Robert Clive (Richard Ashton), who guidelines with an iron whip alongside together with his lecherous son, Justin (Jason Shah).
The narrative spans three days, from 14 August to 16 August 1947. It centres round a younger no gooder Param (Gautham Karthik) and his love for Deepali (Revathy Sharma) — whose household has stored her hidden at house for greater than a decade, mendacity that she died of cholera, to guard her from Justin. What’s going to occur when the evil father-son duo uncover the falsehood? Whether or not Param will reach saving her and the way he leads a revolt varieties the remainder of the story.
AR Murugadoss, who returns to manufacturing 5 years after his final outing, Rangoon, presents the movie on a grand scale. The village and its residents will take you again to the pre-Independence period. Selvakumar SK’s cinematography enhances authenticity. Director NS Ponkumar has a agency grip on portraying the characters and occasions with realism. The scenes of atrocities on the persons are created realistically and are disturbing in lots of cases. T Santhanam’s artwork route and the tribals’ look (one particular person wears huge padlocks on his elongated earlobes) deserve point out.
The premise is intriguing; what if a village doesn’t obtain the information of freedom, one thing they’ve prayed and waited for incessantly for 3 centuries? However the screenplay and the narrative lose the punch owing to long-drawn sequences, whether or not in portraying the atrocities on the villagers, the occasions that comply with when Deepali have to be saved or the climax when Robert returns after attending the assembly when the rule adjustments fingers.
Gautham as a bitter however happy-go-lucky younger man whose mom falls prey to tyranny, and Pugazh as his trusted good friend, carry out nicely. Revathy, as a good-hearted 20-year-old girl in misery, appears to be like the half and acts ably, too. Richard Ashton stands out because the deceitful despot who intentionally retains the information of Independence hidden from the villagers to exit Sengadu like a king.
Dragging sequences and a convoluted plot forestall the movie from being a taut and gripping story however excessive manufacturing values and an intriguing premise make August 16 1947 an interesting watch.
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