{"id":10980,"date":"2022-10-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2022-09-25T14:31:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T09:01:01","slug":"ponniyan-selvan-celebrity-vikram-praises-chola-dynasty-and-emphasises-the-want-to-rejoice-indian-history-we-want-to-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/ponniyan-selvan-celebrity-vikram-praises-chola-dynasty-and-emphasises-the-want-to-rejoice-indian-history-we-want-to-be-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponniyan Selvan\u00a0celebrity\u00a0Vikram praises Chola dynasty and emphasises the\u00a0want\u00a0to\u00a0rejoice\u00a0Indian history: \u2018We\u00a0want\u00a0to be proud\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 new poster: Actor Vikram will play the role of Aditya Karikalan in the film.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Vikram said, \u201cSomeone once said that we appreciate a building that doesn\u2019t stand but we have Indian temples that stand. Before this particular stone, they had to use a ramp that was 6 km long, pulled by bulls, elephants and people, to get it up there without cranes, without machinery. They didn\u2019t have plaster. It has withstood six earthquakes. What they\u2019ve done is, they have an outerwall, they have a corridor of six feet, and they have another structure that goes all the way to the top, which is why they withstand earthquakes and why they\u2019ve stood for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued, \u201cSo there are all these things we need to know and this particular king has built 5000 dams in his time and has made a water management ministry at that time. He\u2019s had elections for village leaders, asked to name cities after women, after a queen, why should it only be men?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vikram added that the Chola kings helped people get dignity and did not waste money. \u201cThis happened in the 9th century, when we had the biggest maritime naval system in the world. It went all the way to Bali, Malaysia, and you know what the superpower was doing then? America hadn\u2019t been discovered yet, and think about our culture, we need to be proud of it. It\u2019s nothing to do with north India, south India. We are Indians and we need to feel proud (of it). Europe was in the dark ages, they had nothing going on. Don\u2019t you think we should celebrate history?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mani Ratnam\u2019s ambitious Ponniyin Selvan Part One chronicles the turbulent period in the history of the Chola kingdom, and is based on Kalki\u2019s work of the same name. Vikram plays the role of Aditya Karikalan, a messenger who holds the key to ending the chaos and the misunderstanding between the Chola kings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 new poster: Actor Vikram will play the role of Aditya Karikalan in the film. Vikram said, \u201cSomeone once said that we appreciate a building that doesn\u2019t stand but we have Indian temples that stand. Before this particular stone, they had to use a ramp that was 6 km long, pulled by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[82,88,56,1046,87,10127,84,15441],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-bollywood","tag-famous","tag-fashion","tag-good-looking","tag-model","tag-ponniyin-selvan","tag-style","tag-zaa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10982,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/10982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}