![]() ![]() ![]() The book was completed by Kalki after spending three and a half years working on it and three trips to Sri Lanka for research.And now the film is being made on a whopping Rs. In 2019 finally, the production of the film started.Since 1994 Mani Ratnam has been dreaming to take out the characters of our history on a big screen but back then making a film on such a high budget of 100 crores was a big deal.It was published between 19 in the Tamil weekly magazine Kalki and released in book form in 1955.Ponniyin Selvan is a literary work that draws from genuine historical events and characters of the Chola dynasty.The craze for the series which was published weekly was such that it elevated the magazine circulation to reach a staggering figure of 71,366 copies – no mean achievement in a newly independent India. It was first published as a series in the Kalki, a Tamil language magazine, during the 1950s and was later integrated into a novel. ![]()
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