![]() ![]() Its scale is epic, and the world-building occurs in a specific period and setting, with a plot, theme/s, and conflict. ![]() The grammar belongs in the past, the diction is of today. But where the limits of history (and history books) end, there births the historical novel, which is both real and imaginary, has both fact and fiction - people, events and places. Mani Ratnam's PS-I, or Ponniyin Selvan: I, is the first film in a two-part franchise based on the eponymous Tamil historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy.įor being one of the longest ruling dynasties (300 BC-1279 AD) in world history, spread over southern Indian peninsula, including portions of modern-day Sri Lanka and Maldives, the space afforded to the Chozhas, aka Cholas, and their maritime empire, in our schools’ history books is abysmal. ![]()
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