: ‘A magic that touches you inside’: The ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ book that has inspired Mani Ratnam’s film #IndiaNEWS Tamil director Mani Ratnam’s latest film is the first-ever screen adaptation

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‘A magic that touches you inside’: The ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ book that has inspired Mani Ratnam’s film #IndiaNEWS
Tamil director Mani Ratnam’s latest film is the first-ever screen adaptation of Kalki Krishnamurthy’s hugely popular novel Ponniyin Selvan. Serialised between 1950 and 1954 in the Tamil weekly magazine Kalki and published in 1955 in book form, Ponniyin Selvan is a fictional work that draws from actual historical events and characters.The narrative unfolds in the tenth century during Chola rule. Ponniyin Selvan features adventure, romance and a power struggle over who will succeed the ailing king.Ratnam’s adaptation, which he has written with Elango Kumaravel and novelist B Jeyamohan, is in two parts. Ponniyin Selvan: I will be released on September 30 in Tamil along with dubbed versions in Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam.The heavy-hitting cast includes Vikram, Aishwarya Rai, Jayam Ravi, Karthi, Trisha Krishnan, Prakash Raj, Vikram Prabhu, Aishwarya Lekshmi and Radhakrishnan Parthiban. The music is by AR Rahman, the cinematography by Ravi Varman, the editing by Sreekar Prasad, and the lavish production design by Thota Tharrani.The novel’s serialisation created a rage in the 1950s, said popular historian Venkatesh Ramakrishnan, who has written and lectured widely on Kalki Krishnamurthy and runs a Ponniyin Selvan reading club. The title translates into ‘Ponni’s Son’ – Ponni is another name for the Cauvery river.Fans eagerly awaited Krishnamurthy’s weekly instalments, Ramakrishnan told Scroll.in. “There would be boards outside houses saying, Ponniyin Selvan will be read out loud here for people who aren’t...Read more

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