An Indian businessman wanting to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela may have had good intentions at heart, but that didn't stop people for going in on him for mistaking actor Morgan Freeman for the late great leader of South Africa.
The unidentified man financed a large billboard honoring Mandela, comparing him to Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King, Jr. However, he got one major detail very wrong -- the person displayed on the billboard was Morgan Freeman. To be fair, Freeman played Mandela in the 2009 film "Invictus," but it was still a glaring mistake.
"We should be proud that we were part of an era when they lived," reads the Tamil-language sign posted in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
The owner of the billboard assured news outlets that he would replace it with the correct picture, blaming the designer for the gaff.
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