Ponniyin Selvan: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan resumes shooting for Mani Ratnam’s historical drama

While Vikram, Karthi, and Jayam Ravi have already resumed the shoot of Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, the film’s two leading ladies Aishwarya Rai and Aishwarya Lekshmi have also joined the team in Pondicherry. Aishwarya Rai plays a double role, Nandhini, and Mandakini Devi in the film. Trisha essays the role of the Chola Princess Kundhavai. We hear that Aishwarya Lekshmi plays Poonguzhali, a bold woman in the film.

The first part of filmmaker Mani Ratnam’s Tamil-language historical drama Ponniyin Selvan is set to be released in 2022, the makers announced recently. The star-studded magnum opus features an ensemble of actors like Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Karthi, Trisha Krishnan, Prakash Raj, Jayaram, Jayam Ravi and Aishwarya Lekshmi among others.

Aishwarya had taken to her Instagram handle a couple of days back to share the poster of the first instalment of the film. She had written, “The Golden Era comes to Life✨Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan ?PS1?”.

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The film is based on Kalki Krishnamurthy’s 1955 novel Ponniyin Selvan. The book chronicles the story of the early days of Arulmozhivarman, one of the most powerful kings in the south, who went on to become the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I. Ratnam had revealed that most of the shooting has been done and they are aiming for a theatrical release.

In terms of work, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was last seen in the 2018 musical Fanney Khan, co-starring Anil Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, which was a box office debacle. She will reportedly be seen in Gulab Jamun, co-starring her actor-husband Abhishek Bachchan. The film will be produced by Anurag Kashyap.

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