Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan gets this Nerkonda Paarvai star - check out who it is!

Ace director Mani Ratnam kicked off his dream project, Ponniyin Selvan, on December 10 at Thailand with a song's shoot reportedly ongoing now. The six-time National Award-winning director has often expressed his desire to bring acclaimed Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy’s epic novel, Ponniyin Selvan, onto the visual medium, and is being made jointly under the Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions banners with music by Oscar winner, A. R. Rahman. One among the several interesting aspects about Ponniyin Selvan has been its humongous star cast with the latest addition being actor Arjun Chidambaram, who played the main villain in 'Thala' Ajith's blockbuster, Nerkonda Paarvai. The actor had taken to his Instagram page to post a story in which he went on to acknowledge that he indeed is part of Mani Ratnam's upcoming magnum opus. 

Ponniyin Selvan includes huge names like 'Chiyaan' Vikram, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Trisha said to be forming the lead cast. Earlier this week, it was revealed that popular Tamil actor Riyaz Khan, known for his villain roles, is also part of Ponniyin Selvan with Arjun Chidambaram's addition too lending more strength to the film's supporting star cast. The film will also see Vikram Prabhu, Prabhu, Sarath Kumar, Rahman, Jayaram, Kishore, Ashwin Kakamanu and Aishwarya Lekshmi in major starring roles and it now remains to be seen how Mani Ratnam is going to present Kalki Krishnamurthy's vision.