He opens another exit of the passage that leads to Nandhini's room where he sees Kadhamaaran's sister Manimegalai, who hearing about Vandiyathevan, has fallen in love with him. Madurantakan is in the race because Sundara Chola’s father took the throne after his father and not passing it on to him since he was an adopted child. Ponniyin Selvan is widely considered to be one of the greatest novels ever written in Tamil, and it continues to be hugely popular even today.

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He was narrow-minded and ambitious and always considered Vandiyathevan his enemy but gets beaten by him all throughout the story. Kalki has been highly associated with his world-famous epic Tamil historic novel ‘Ponniyin Selvan’, serialized between 29 October 1950 to 16 May 1954, in the weekly edition of his magazine Kalki and released in book form five parts in 1955. There are a lot of cultural references in this book about the various religions that existed during that period. In a press statement, Westland Books said that for ease of reading, each of the original five volumes has been divided further, into shorter books that are easy to hold and carry around. The Chozha empire spreads over by capturing the Pallavas and the Kongu kingdom by Vijayalaya Chozha and later on, his successors (Parantaka I, Adita karikala, Rajarajachozha, and Rajendra chozha).Most of the times I felt as if I was living among the characters and I am planning to visit the places that are mentioned in the book. The story starts with Vandiyathevan carrying a scroll with a message from Crown Prince Aditha Karikalan for the emperor Sundara Chozhar and his daughter Kundavai.

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When his legs became paralysed and his health began rapidly deteriorating, the Pazhuvettaraiyar brothers moved the emperor from Pazhayarai to Thanjavur so they could better protect him. So many generations of Tamil speakers and Tamil readers have grown up with Ponniyin Selvan that it is incredible to think the work did not exist 75 years ago.In 2017, Nila comics started releasing series of comic books where every comic book is an adaptation of two chapters from the novel.

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Before dying he tells Nambi that he did not kill Aditha Karikalan, when he went to the palace Karikalan is already found dead. The characters and the plot are really good and I loved Kundavai Pirattiyar, the Princess of Chola dynasty. The Chozha kingdom is strong – they are practicising Hindu Saivites but allow Vaishnavism and also Buddhism to thrive.So when Karikalan went to war Nandini was expelled from the kingdom by Karikalan's family as she is an orphan so they don't want her to be Aditha Karikalan's wife who is going to be the king, but Karikalan is unaware of his family's plan.

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A few of the powerful characters in this book include Vandhiyathevan, Nandhini, Azhvarkadiyan, Paluvetarayar, and Poonguzhali. The script's length was originally over nine hours long, but was shortened into a performance time of four hours and 20 minutes and featured 72 actors on a multi-level setting. Ponniyin Selvan (பொன்னியின் செல்வன்) is a classic Tamil historical novel written by Kalki Krishnamurthy. Kundavai tries to bring Arulmozhivarman back to maintain political stability in a nation afflicted by turbulence and civil war orchestrated by vassals and small chieftains. According to the copper plates found in Anbil and Thiruvalangadu, “The Chola people were very desirous that following Sundarachozha, Arulmozhivarman should take the throne and control their kingdom.But while the name had so far remained in the imagination of the readers and the generations who heard the story later, it is now set to become a part of pop culture with the big screen release of Ponniyin Selvan: I. The story revolves around Vandiyathevan, a lovely, courageous, and the clever young man who sets out to deliver a message from Crown Prince Adithya Karikalan to the King and Princess.