Review: Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan I is an unapologetic adaptation of Kalki’s epic Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan I has a star-studded cast that understands the weight of translating Kalki Krishnamurthy’s masterpiece on the silver screen and pulls it off successfully. “The book is better,” says every reader, who has been subjected to a movie or a show based on something they have read, and worse, loved. Kalki Krishnamurthy’s books are better—the masterpiece, and engaging. Ponniyin Selvan, published in nearly the 1950s, is undoubtedly the best novel in Tamil literature. As Twitter users predicted, people across generations rushed to the theatres to see a star-studded cast—made up of Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Jayam Ravi, Karthi, Trisha, Aishwarya Lekshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Prabhu, R. Sarathkumar, Prakash Raj, Rahman, and others—bring this epic to life. Ponniyin Selvan is a five-part historical fiction series based on the life of Arulmozhi Varman, who later becam...
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