16 December (film)

16 December
Directed byMani Shankar
Written byMani Shankar
Produced byAnjali Joshi
Arunima Roy
iDream Production
StarringDanny Denzongpa
Gulshan Grover
Milind Soman
Dipannita Sharma
Sushant Singh
Aditi Govitrikar
CinematographyAjayan Vincent
Music byKarthik Raja
Distributed byiDream Production (through SPE Films India)[1]
Release date
  • 22 March 2002 (2002-03-22)
Running time
158 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

16 December is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film[2] directed by Mani Shankar, based on a plot to destroy the capital city of India, New Delhi with a nuclear bomb on 16 December 2001 – 30 years after the surrender of Pakistan at the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.[3][4][5]

The film's title comes from the historical date of 16 December 1971 (which is also Bangladesh's Victory Day), commemorating the day Pakistan signed the document of Liberation of Bangladesh.

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  3. ^ "Must watch espionage movies of Bollywood". The Times of India.
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