Aishwarya Rai to play antagonist in Mani Ratnam's period drama

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There has been much hypothesis around Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's straightaway, with bits of gossip proposing that she may rejoin with Mani Ratnam for a film dependent on the authentic Tamil epic, Ponniyin Selvan. In the most recent improvement, early afternoon has discovered that the actor has given a thumbs up to the period show. With his preferred actor ready, the auteur has now put the multi-lingual into overdrive and would like to take it on floors constantly end. 

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The film, in light of the life of Arulmozhi Varman who turned into the incomparable Chola ruler, will consider Rai to be the foe. Says an exchange source, "The story happens in the tenth century before Raja Chola turned into a lord. 

Aishwarya will be viewed as Nandini, the spouse of Periya Pazhuvettaraiyar, who filled in as the chancellor and treasurer of the Chola kingdom. Her character is composed as a strange, control hungry lady who controls her better half to design the defeat of the Chola domain since she has been wronged by them." 

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While Rai has recently depicted dim characters in Khakee (2005) and Dhoom 2 (2006), it will intrigue see the presentation that Ratnam extricates from her. As far back as her film dispatch in Iruvar (1997), she has given a portion of her most outstanding exhibitions under his direction.