Ponniyin selvan who is nandhini

The trailer of Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan 2 was released on Wednesday night. The historical epic is the sequel to last year’s blockbuster Ponniyin Selvan 1 and concludes the story of the Chola Empire’s legendary ruler Raja Raja I’s ascension to the throne. While the trailer was praised by thousands of fans, one actor in particular, walked away with most of the plaudits, and that is Aishwarya Rai. In Reacting to her glimpse in the trailer, one fan wrote, “Bollywood was never able to utilise her the way Mani Ratnam does. She looks ferocious and chilling as Nandini.” Others said that she was born to play this role and it offers her scope to exercise her acting chops. “She was born to play Nandini. A fierce queen who uses her beauty as the most lethal weapon of all. When I read PS the first time, years ago, Aishwarya was who I imagined as Nandini,” read one comment. Many fans advised Ponniyin Selvan is based on the eponymous novel by Kalki, which is considered a classic in Tamil literature. The film also stars Jayam Ravi, Vikram, Karthi, Trisha Krishnan, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Prakash Raj, and Sobhita Dhulipala, and has music by AR Rahman. It will be releasing on April 28. The first part was a huge success at the box office, grossing over Rs 500 crore worldwide and breaking several overseas box office records for Tamil films.

Tamil-language Indian cinema, produced in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, had a banner 2023. As heterogeneous an industry as its globally better-known Mumbai counterpart—popularly known as Bollywood—the movie business in Tamil Nadu produces films for a voracious audience that has a taste for everything ranging from social realist critique to horror-comedy. Tamil-language Indian cinema, produced in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, had a banner 2023. As heterogeneous an industry as its globally better-known Mumbai counterpart—popularly known as Bollywood—the movie business in Tamil Nadu produces films for a voracious audience that has a taste for everything ranging from social realist critique to horror-comedy. But the big money has long been, and continues to remain, in the generously budgeted action pictures that burnish the mythos of their superstar male leads. One of these, sexagenarian icon Kamal Haasan, powered the action thriller Vikram to a worldwide gross of over $60 million. Vikram’s claim on the record was Ponniyin Selvan: Part 1 and its sequel have been stunning successes. The films are based on a beloved Tamil five-volume epic of the same name, written by Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy—better known by his pen name, Kalki—for his magazine in installments from 1950 to 1954 . The stories, collected and published as a series of books totaling 2,400 pages in 1955, became near-mandatory reading across demographics in Tamil Nadu. The novels’ reach has largely been limited ...