Symbolic link to a directory created with a role task file with owner attribute is not accessible to root user

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Hi,
My ansible version is:
ansible 2.1.0 (devel a584ab3) last updated 2016/02/02 12:07:20 (GMT +300)
I have a defined role with a tasks file which includes creation of a symbolic link to a directory with owner and group attributes set to a specific user. When I execute the playbook, the symlink is created but I cannot access it with root user. The issue does not appear when I create it with an ad-hoc command. What is wrong with my setup?
role’s vars:

ansible_user: root

service_name: tomcat

install_dir: /tmp

major_version: 8

full_version: "{{ major_version }}.0.30"

the task in the role’s tasks file:

  - name: Create symlink tomcat home dir

    file:

      path: "{{ install_dir }}/tomcat"

      src: "{{ install_dir }}/apache-tomcat-{{ full_version }}"

      state: link

      owner: tomcat

      group: tomcat

root@system# cd /tmp/tomcat
-bash: cd: /tmp/tomcat: Permission denied
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Has anyone faced this issue ?