Mani Ratnam: It’s meant for the big screen
Updated On: 27 September, 2022 08:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Agencies
Mani Ratnam’s long-in-the-planning film to have ‘no superheroes, no definite villains’
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A still from the Ponniyin Selvan: I
Mani Ratnam’s adaptation of Kalki Krishnamurthy’s Tamil novel, Ponniyin Selvan is the realisation of his childhood dream. It was a film he wanted to create with Kamal Haasan a while ago, post the success of Nayakan (1987), but things did not materialise.
The story is set in 10th century India during the reign of the Chola empire when a family rift for the potential successor to the emperor, became imminent. In an interview to Variety, Ratnam said that he did not find the adaptation easy to execute, given that Krishnamurthy has penned the tale in much detail. Even then, he said the team attempted to make the film as realistic as it could, and with the understanding that the book was written through the point of view of a common man. He admits that this is also the “angle that we have taken [as] there are no superheroes, no definite villains in this [film]”.
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