• Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    07/04/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    143m

  • Cast

    Gautham Karthik, Pugazh, Richard Ashton

Film

August 16 1947

strong bloody violence, injury detail, sexual threat, suicide

On the eve of Independence, an Indian village faces the brutality of a British overseer in this intense and disturbing Tamil language drama, which features scenes of bloody violence, as well as sexual threat. …

On the eve of Independence, an Indian village faces the brutality of a British overseer in this intense and disturbing Tamil language drama, which features scenes of bloody violence, as well as sexual threat.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

theme

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    07/04/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    143m

  • Cast

    Gautham Karthik, Pugazh, Richard Ashton

strong bloody violence, injury detail, sexual threat, suicide
Classified Date:
04/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
TGS ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
violence
There are numerous scenes of strong violence featuring heavy beatings, shootings, stabbings and chokings, along with people being whipped. A man's leg is sliced off with a sword and another man's tongue is cut out. In an animated sequence a man's arm is removed by a blast of gunfire. These violent events result in blood spurts and other strong bloodshed.
threat and horror
There is moderate gun and knife threat.
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'bloody', 'ass', 'piss', 'hell' and 'moron'.
sex
There are infrequent moderate sex references.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Female characters, including children, face the prospect of sexual violation, although such acts are only implied or spoken about.
suicide and self-harm
In a disturbing scene, a mother gets her young son to assist in killing herself by asphyxiation, rather than being taken captive by British colonialists.
injury detail
Strong injury detail includes sight of extensive wounds to faces and bodies, as well as severed limbs.
theme
There are disturbing, but undetailed, references to parents killing their young daughters rather than face being dishonoured by their children falling victims to sexual coercion by colonial occupiers.

  • Classified date

    04/04/2023

  • Language

    Tamil