Earlier, August 15th used to be one of the prominent days in line with any other festivals ranging from Pongal, Tamil New Year, and Diwali to Christmas. There were a few producers in good old days, like Balaji whose company co-produced the recently released Kreedom, who had it a mandate to invariably release a movie on August 15.

History has witnessed a few good blockbusters released on the Independence Day. For instance, Roja that went on to create box office history and international acclaim bestowed an immense talent by name A.R. Rahman to Tamil cinema. What Rahman did to the music scene of Indian cinema needs no elucidation.

For reasons unknown, this trend is slowly ceasing to exist – releasing movies on the Independence Day. Could be that movie making as a profession is on a decline. Or just that this year the movies that are being produced are not ready for release yet.