Among their many talking points was about the making of Ponniyin Selvan, the first part of which earned the best Tamil feature at ... classic and the best-selling book from 1950, and something ...

Discussing his recent two-part historical epic "Ponniyin Selvan," based on Kalki Krishnamurthy's 1950s Tamil novel ... battling not just the five-volume book but also the perception of so many ...

the tweet read. Based on Kalki Krishnamurthy's popular 1955 Tamil novels of the same name, the "Ponniyin Selvan" film series chronicles the story of the early days of Arulmozhivarman, played by ...