PONNIYIN SELVAN – PART 2 [Hindi] is the story of the Chola Empire. At the end of the first part, Arunmozhi alias Ponniyin Selvan (Jayam Ravi) and Vallavaraiyan Vandiyadevan (Karthi) are presumed to be dead, leading to chaos in the Chola Empire. However, both survive as they are rescued by... Mouni Rani (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), a lookalike of Nandini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan). Both somehow reach Lanka. Arunmozhi is very ill and the Buddhist priests on the island heal him while secretly housing him in their monastery. Aditya Karikalan (Vikram) is enraged on hearing about his brother’s death as he guesses that Nandini is responsible for it. Madhurantakan (Rahman), meanwhile, continues his fight to claim the throne of the Chola Empire. Amid all this madness, the Pandyas capture Vandiyadevan. He overhears the conversation between Pandyas and Nandini. Nandini devises a plan of killing Karikalan, his father Sunder Chol (Prakash Raj) and Arunmozhi, presuming he’s alive, on the same night, in order to avenge the death of Veer Pandya (Nasser). Vandiyadevan is about to be killed but Nandini lets him go when he tells her that her lookalike saved his life. Meanwhile, news of Arunmozhi seeking refuge in the Lankan monastery spreads and the locals ask them to visit their village. Vandiyadevan, who’s aware that plans are being made to kill Arunmozhi, advises him not to go ahead. Arunmozhi, however, accepts the offer. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
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