Aishwarya Rai Bachchan recently attended the South Indian International Movie Awards 2024. During this function, she received the award in the Best Actress (Critics) category for 'Ponniyin Selvan 2'. Aishwarya's daughter Aaradhya was also present with her during the award function. She was well-liked as 'Nandini' in 'Ponniyin Selvan'. However, many other actresses associated with the film also wanted to play Aishwarya's role, one of whom was South's big actress Trisha. She has played the role of 'Kundawai' in 'Ponniyin Selvan', for which she also received a lot of appreciation. Some time ago in an interview, Trisha had told that she had talked to the director of the film for this role, but he refused Trisha.
'Ponniyan Selvan', released in the year 2022, is an epic action drama in Tamil language. Apart from Aishwarya, this film also stars many other great actresses like Trisha, Shobhita Dhulipala, Aishwarya Lakshmi. The character of 'Nandini' has been made the most powerful in the film, which is played by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. But Trisha also wanted to play this role. She revealed that she had asked the director of the film Mani Ratnam if she could play the character of 'Nandini' instead of 'Kudavai'. But the director did not think about it.
In an interview with News 18, Trisha told that she went to meet Mani Ratnam in his office, where she asked him about the role. Responding to her question, the director refused her. Mani Ratnam told Trisha that he had first cast for the role of 'Nandini' and he felt that no one could play this role better than Aishwarya. When Trisha came to know that Aishwarya Rai has been cast for this role, she was very happy.
'Ponniyin Selvan' was released in two parts. The film featured actors like Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Trisha Krishnan, Karthi, Aishwarya Lakshmi and Jayam Ravi. After the release of the film, it got a very good response from the audience. This film is also streaming on OTT. The first part of 'Ponniyin Selvan' was released in the year 2022, that year the film earned Rs 450-500 crore. 'Ponniyin Selvan' became the third highest-grossing Indian film of the year 2022 and the fourth highest-grossing Tamil film.
The film has won 4 National Awards in the 70th National Awards. This film was supposed to be made in one part, but due to the length of the story, it was made into two parts. Its story is based on Kalki Krishnamurthy's 1955 novel Ponniyin Selvan. This film got six nominations including the Best Film in the 16th Asian Film Awards. 'Ponniyin Selvan' has won the Best Tamil Film Award in the 68th Filmfare Awards.
