Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's look from her upcoming movie 'Ponniyin Selvan' has remained a secret for a long time.
On Tuesday, however, that changed when a picture of the actress from the film's sets was leaked online.
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In the photograph, Aishwarya can be seen standing on a platform in a red silk saree, fanning herself. She is wearing heavy gold jewellery and is surrounded by members of the film crew. A boom mic is held up next to her as well.
Omg..!! Aishwarya Rai Bachchan spotted on the sets of #PonniyinSelvan Really very excited to watch this movieđ pic.twitter.com/kmMN5iv28A â Goki (@Gokila81197469) August 24, 2021
Recently, Rai Bachchan had shared the first look of Mani Ratmanâs upcoming, two-part period drama âPonniyin Selvanâ. For her role, Aishwarya will be sharing the scree space with South Indian star Karthi.
In the poster, a sword & shield can be seen with a fire stripe piercing through the shield in the centre. Ashâas she is known in Bollywoodâdropped the first poster on Instagram and captioned it as, âThe Golden Era comes to Life Mani Ratnamâs Ponniyin Selvan ?PS1.â
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For the uninitiated, Ponniyin Selvan is a Tamil period drama co-written, directed and co-produced by Mani Ratnam. Elango Kumaravel and B. Jeyamohan have co-written the film with Mani Ratnam. The film's music will be composed by AR Rahman.
It is an adaptation of Kalki Krishnamurthy's historical period-based fiction novel by the same name.
âPonniyin Selvanâ also features Vikram, Karthi, Jayam Ravi, Jayaram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Trisha in lead roles, while Prabhu, Vikram Prabhu, and Aishwarya Lekshmi in parallel roles.