A.R.Rahman - Mani Rathnam - Ponniyin Selvan

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Over the past couple of months, it has been a never-ending news about Manirathnam’s upcoming movie ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ that is based on the novel with the same name authored by veteran writer Kalki. The bilingual movie starring Vijay, Arya and Mahesh Babu in lead roles will be made simultaneously in Tamil and Telugu.

There were lots of speculations that A.R. Rahman might not work with Manirathnam as he is occupied with more Hindi and international projects. Additionally there were some stories published in leading newspapers that Maestro Ilayaraja and Manirathnam will work together for this historical project.

But now it has been confirmed by the closer sources of Manirathnam that it will be A.R. Rahman working on this film. Since ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ is going to be an international project produced at a big cost, the producers have felt that ‘A.R. Rahman’ factor will help for the film’s success to a greater magnitude.

Is this ARR's first historical in thamizh?