Director Mani Ratnam‘s Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions have stated that they’ll donate Rs 1 crore to the Kalki Krishnamoorthy Memorial Belief. They made the announcement at Saturday’s success meet of Ponniyin Selvan: I, which was held in Chennai.
Forward of the occasion, Mani Ratnam and Lyca’s CEO Subhaskaran met Kalki Krishnamoorthy’s son Rajendran and introduced him with the cheque of Rs 1 crore within the presence of Seetha Ravi, the supervisor of the belief.
Our Chairman #Subaskaran & director #ManiRatnam donated a sum of Rs 1 Crore to the Kalki Krishnamurthy Memorial Belief.
A cheque was introduced to the belief’s Managing Trustee Seetha Ravi within the presence of Kalki Rajendran, son of Kalki.#PS1 #PonniyinSelvan1 @MadrasTalkies_ pic.twitter.com/IuyLmMrzEw
— Lyca Productions (@LycaProductions) November 5, 2022
Mani Ratnam’s two-part movie is predicated on a sequence of novels written by Amarar Kalki Krishnamoorthy between the years 195o and 1954. The novel is a fictional account of the three youngsters of Sundara Chola: Aditya Karikalan, Kundhavai, Rajaraja Chola aka Arulmozhi Varman.
On the success meet, Mani Ratnam thanked Lyca Productions and others for trusting him to make the movie. Actors Karthi, Jayam Ravi, and Parthiban have been additionally current on the meet.
Ponniyin Selvan: I has turn out to be one of many high grossers in Tamil cinema by minting about Rs 500 crores worldwide. The movie, which was launched in a number of Indian languages, stars Vikram, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Trisha, Aishwarya Rai, Prakash Raj, Jayaram, and Sarathkumar. It has music by AR Rahman. The second a part of the movie is anticipated to be launched in the summertime of 2023.