Starring: Jason Sha, Pugazh, Revathy, Richard Ashton, and Gautham Karthik

NS Ponkumar is the director.

A remote village in Tamil Nadu, ruled by a ruthless British officer and his twisted son, is on the brink of freedom - but the villagers don't know it yet. From this promising premise, writer-director NS Ponkumar has created a cartoonish and unnecessarily violent alternative history of the independence movement.
Robert (Richard Ashton) and his son Justin (Jason Shah) created a reign of terror in cotton-rich Sengadu. Whipping, cutting tongues, impaling bodies - Robert and Justin love medieval forms of punishment. Justin also hunts Sengadu girls. The landlord (Mudhusudan Rao) is Robert's most important partner. Although the villagers know the slogan of the Indian National Army "Give me your blood and I will give you freedom", they are not fully aware that the long-standing anti-colonial movement will bear fruit in a few days.
Robert, who fully believes in his coined phrase "Five minutes spent, £12 wasted!" whip some more to extract as much wealth as possible from the village before handing over the responsibility to Indian administrators. An unlikely hero emerges as a village outsider, Paraman (Gautham Karthik), bursting with satisfaction after incidents involving the landlord's daughter, Dipali (Revathy).
Ponkumar's Tamil 16 August 1947 was dubbed into Hindi and released with a UA certificate. For a film that may confuse young historical viewers, parental guidance is advised.

Almost always loud and fond of brutal on-air methods, the 144-minute film balances its elements quite deftly until the end. The post-interval episodes are a muddled plot, muddled acting and a series of pointless deaths.
Robert and Justin are the kind of cartoon heroes who laugh at the most horrible behavior. Robert, in particular, yells, shouts orders and rolls his eyes hard to live up to his reputation as "a cross between Adolf Hitler and Changez Khan." In contrast, the leading threads of the film are models of restraint. Director Ponkumar simply swept away too many of his RRR bombs to complete his saga of suffering. There will never be a break from incessant histrionics.
Repeated violence has the desired effect: it numbs the public. When we meet a man whose tongue has been cut out and repeatedly told to express himself because he cannot be understood, it is hard to say whether freedom is around the corner or not, whether for Segadu or a helpless bystander. 

The villagers wear what looks like a dog tag and are dressed in rugs and sometimes have giant locks in their ears. I think these are interesting efforts from the costume department, but I'm not sure they add much to the story. 
Although there are some "time bomb" situations in the film, we don't really root for the characters because of their detachment and the logical gaps we feel with them. For example, after saving Thaenmall (Revathy) with a rather clever plan, the room of the evil Justin is used as a hiding place for her. The reason given? "Justin is looking everywhere but his  house." Well, it's no surprise that the predator returns to its house to rest... and you know the rest.  
Apart from the premise, earnest performances by Gautham Karthik and debutant Revathy save the day. Among the caricatures, the work of these two actors stands out. Pugaz's performance may have shown effort, but the monotony of his action tested my patience. As I suppose, so did much of the film