Summary:
Mumbai, Sep 25 (PTI) Actor Vikram says people should celebrate and be proud of the country"s illustrious past as he gears up to present a pivotal chapter from Indian history with Mani Ratnam"s magnum opus "Ponniyin Selvan - I".
Based on Kalki Krishnamurthy"s 1955 novel, the much-anticipated Tamil historical drama chronicles the story of the early days of Arulmozhivarman, a powerful king of the south who went on to become the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I.
Vikram, the star of Tamil hits "Sethu", "Pithamagan", "Anniyan", "Raavanan" and "I", essays the role of Aditha Karikalan, the elder brother of Arulmozhivarman, in the new movie.
"We talk about superpowers today.
In the ninth century, when all this happened, we had the biggest maritime naval force in the world and it went all the way to Bali, Malaysia, and China.
What was the superpower doing then? "America hadn"t been discovered by Columbus till five hundred years later.
Think about our culture, think about how advanced we were, we need to be proud of this.
It"s nothing to do with North or South India, East or West.
We are Indians and we need to be proud of that...