Ponniyin Selvan Trailer: Mani Ratnam’s Period Drama Promises The Story Of India’s Greatest Empire

The awaited trailer from Ponniyin Selvanis from Mani Ratnam. The film maker launched his trailer at the launch of the Grand Audio at Chennai on Tuesday. Videos for more than three minutes consist of many frames that are larger than life. The trailer, voiced by Kamal Haasan, told the story of the Chola Dynasty and introduced viewers to many film characters. The video that began with a long shot of a large royal, featured Vikram, Karthi, Trisha, Jayram Ravi, Prakash Raj, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. The video shows many sequences of fighting and wealth of the kingdom. Actor Vikram, Karthi and Jayram Ravi are seen fighting in many sequences, with several dialogues there -here by many film characters. The video ended with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan looking at the empty throne.

In the film, Vikram played Aditya Karikalan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan played a dual role and Jayram Ravi played a titular role. The film also stars Karthi, Trisha, Aishwarya Leksshmi, Sobhita Dhulipala, Prakash Raj who leads.

Mani Ratnam, who has directed Ponniyin Selvan, has also written the script with Elango Kumaravel and B. Jeyamohan. The film based on the Kalki Krishnamurthy novel in 1955 Ponniyin Selvan, was produced under the banners – Madras Talkie and Lyca Productions. Ar Rahman has compiled music for this film.

Ponniyin Selvan was originally intended to be a stand-alone film, which was later split into two parts.

The first part of the film is all set to release in theaters on September 30 in five languages – Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.