…Kanmani) and the Vijay Sethupathi-starrer Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (2018; “Crimson Red Sky”), about a power struggle in a crime family; both were in Tamil. In 2019 Ratnam began working on a two-film series, Ponniyin Selvan, based on Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy’s historical fiction novel set in the Chola empire (9th–13th…
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