Ace director Mani Ratnam is on a hectic work with his magnum opus 'Ponniyin Selvan', adapted from the historic novel of the same name written by Kalki.
As per the reports, the movie includes a star cast of Vikram, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Jayaram, Parthiban, Sathyaraj, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan , Keerthy Suresh, Amala Paul and Amitabh Bachchan.
Reports also suggested that Mani Ratnam has finalized forest of Thailand as the location for Ponniyin Selvan.
In five volumes, or about 2400 pages, Ponniyil selvan, the historic novel tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I. Ponniyin Selvan is widely considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written in Tamil literature
