Outline: The Chola realm is under danger from powers both interior and outside, and with crown ruler Aaditha Karikalan
His more youthful sibling Ponniyin Selvan and the head, Sundara Cholar isolated by circumstances, it ultimately depends on a courier to guarantee the security of the realm.
Might he at any point prevail in his main goal, particularly with Karikalan's previous sweetheart, Nandhini, plotting to cut down the whole Chola domain?
Survey: Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan is a rambling legendary that has so far stayed subtle to film for the overwhelming majority a Tamil movie producer
Mani Ratnam at long last carries the fantasy bursting at the seams with this stupendous variation that greatly catches the interest, excites and page-turning nature of the books.
In this first of a two-section establishment, the chief and his scholars - Jeyamohan and Ilango Kumaravel - ascend to the test.
The movie has an unsteady beginning, with the chief taking as much time as is needed to set up the plot.
Crown ruler Aaditha Karikalan (Vikram) endows his companion Vandhiyathevan (Karthi) to convey a message to his dad and sovereign Sundara Cholar (Prakash Raj)
Sister, princess Kunthavai (Trisha) on the dangers that the realm is confronting.
The rascals incorporate Periya Pazhuvettarayar (Sarath Kumar) and Chinna Pazhuvettarayar (Radhakrishnan Parthiban), the domain's money clergyman and commandant
The various lords who have sworn fealty to the sovereign, the excess powers of the vanquished Pandya ruler and above all,
Nandhini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), Karikalan's previous sweetheart and the spouse of Periya Pazhuvettarayar, still up in the air to bring the whole Chola realm down because of reasons of her own.
These segments, which definitely have a touch of work given the idea of the plot.