The teaser of Ponniyin Selvan directed by Mani Ratnam has been released and is receiving a huge response. The teaser is being praised on social media for its grand visuals and background score. Especially A.R. Rahman who is featured in the teaser. Many have commented that Rahman’s background score is amazing.
As the film is set in the story of the Chola period, the film team has released a statement that Rahman has collected the musical instruments of the chola period for the past two years and composed the background music for it. Rahman has used many musical instruments in the background music of this film, including pambai, udukkai, urumi, thambattam, kombu, panchamuga vadhiyam, which were mainly used in the Chola period. But while many musical instruments belonging to the Chola era are not available in Tamil Nadu, he bought some musical instruments from Thailand and composed the background music.
In order to give life to Mani Ratnam’s scenes depicting the Chola period, the musical instruments used in that period were bought and made it has completely original.