(Image Credit: Sifynews.com) It is on many counts and at multiple levels a travesty to compare a silver screen adaptation with the literature forming the underlying backdrop for such an endeavour. Sixty seven years after Kalki Krishnamurthy, the literary genius, penned his epochal “Ponniyin Selvan” that became eponymous with the Chola Empire, Mani Ratnam has … Continue reading PONNIYIN SELVAN 1 – A FITTING PAEAN TO THE GENIUS OF KALKI