*ing Milind Soman, Danny Denzongpa, Gulshan Grover, Sushant Sharma, Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Gowitrikar...
	Director: Mani Shankar
	Producer:Arunima Roy
	Music: Karthik Raaja
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Mani Shankar's film 16 December revolves around this very incident, creating a web of terror and fear with the use of a nuclear attack threat. Its not about partition, its not about the border skirmishes, but uses a new subject of nuclear blackmail, rarely used by any filmmaker. Not only is the idea timely and topical, but had it been used to its full potential without falling down like a pack of tumbling cards, 16 December would have been a landmark film.

Not many films deal with espionage, intelligence and the art of secret warfare, which is rarely seen, but definitely heard of. Mani Shankar's film 16 December revolves around this very incident, and uses a new subject of nuclear blackmail.
A team of the Indian intelligence officers decides to trace a huge amount of money that has been laundered and does not have a specific account holder. All of a sudden, the pieces start falling into places, as a face is unraveled. Dost Khan, Interpol's most wanted criminal is all set to take revenge on the Indians for making his unit surrender in the Bangladesh war. He has not only been smuggling crores of rupees from Indian banks, but also is in hold of a nuclear bomb which he wishes to detonate in Delhi on the same day and time that the surrender took place. Now it is upto the intelligence officers captained by Danny Denzongpa, and his team of juniors headed by Milind Soman to capture him and save the country from this disaster.
The evilness in Dost Khan played by Gulshan Grover is hardly terrorizing. Using different makeup he does manage to remain elusive, but fails to project the image of a mad man or a jehadi who is willing to go to any level to get his work done. Also the plot has many loopholes, and its intricacy and detailing only hampers the flow of the story rather than helping it out. Especially in the first half, as the mystery of the missing money unfolds, the audience is often seen confused as to where is the story heading, and what is the actual plot of the movie.
Aditi Gowatriker however looks refreshingly beautiful in her very brief cameo appearance. Danny does his usual bit of dialogue delivery. The movie is a failure in many ways.