Shankar hails D16 team

Director Shankar heaped rich laurels on director Karthick Naren and other team members of the recently released Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru.

"Dhuruvangal 16- A well made suspense thriller, with strong belief on the script. Cheers to dir Karthick, Dop editor Sujith, Rahman and team," he tweeted.

Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru, also promoted as D-16, is a Tamil thriller film directed by Karthick Naren, starring Rahman in the leading role.

The movie was released on 29 December 2016 to highly positive reviews. In September 2015, Rahman revealed that he would work on a Tamil action film to be directed by Karthick Naren, then only twenty one years old.

Rahman revealed that he wanted to work with youngsters and had no apprehensions about signing on to feature in a film, to be made by newcomers.

The film was predominantly shot in October and November 2015, over a period of 28 days in Chennai, Coimbatore and Ooty.

The film's first look was released by director Gautham Menon through a poster in January 2016, while R. Madhavan released the storyline poster and A R Rahman released the trailer of the movie in August 2016 which got unanimous response among the people.