ponniyin selvan audio book download free

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after listening to this production, I am somewhat disappointed. When I first got to know that ponniyin selvan audiobooks are finally being made, I was overjoyed. This was extremely annoying when the pause goes on and on at critical moments which are abound in ponniyin selvan.

what is more is that for some reason the producers felt they could let the music play on at the ends of each chapter for some dramatic effect and the extended pause of narration seems to get longer and longer with each book. Why take the trouble to add background music to narration and then lift music elsewhere when you can simply narrate the book. If that wasn't enough, the background score for the books feature original soundtracks lifted from movies like the lord of the rings trilogy, avatar, titanic, bravheart, the mummy and several more.

The composer instead made it out to be what is called in tamil as 'oppari'. Manimeghalai is supposed to sing the song with melancholy. especially the second time at the climax. The composer has completely butchered that song. The author felt it was so important that she sang the song again at the very end of book at a defining moment. Kalki wrote a beautiful song for Manimeghalai in this book. The composer perhaps is more at fault than the singers for this I suppose. The singing barring those of Senthan Amudhan is quite mediocre. The book contains several songs which has been sung with music in the audiobook. But the biggest bane of this book is its music. The exaggerated laughter performed by the narrators are often totally uncalled for and can even get annoying at times. The quality of narration wavers from quite good to really bad. For the most part, the main narrator does an extremely good job and had it just been him without the background accessories, this would have been a decent effort. The audiobook features multiple narrators narrating different characters. As a result, the sum total is worse than the sum of its parts. It looks like they couldn't decide if the end product should be an audiobook, a theatre play or an audiomovie. The producers of this audiobook seem to be highly confused as to what the final outcome should be. Everything else is a mere distraction that takes away from the beauty of ponniyin selvan. In the face of such magnificant writing, all you to have to do is merely narrate. Feeling grateful to him for all his research and for having given us this magnum opus. Am I the only one who felt characters such as Aditha Karikalan, Vandiya thevan, Nandhini, Mandakini and Azhwarkadiyaan were more interesting and had more impact than Mr.Ponniyin selvan himself? Events such as Aditha Karikalan- Nandhini meeting, Aditha Karikaalan's letter to Kundavai, Mandakini's heartbreak with Sundara Cholan were simply out of this world Planning to listen to more Kalki classics.

Felt Kundavai's voice could have sounded more majestic given that she's portrayed as an astute, intelligent woman in the story. How convenient!! Voice over for Nandhini (pleasantly surprised when I found it was Fathima Babu's), Alwarkadiyaan, Sundara Cholan, Vandiya thevan and that for narration were outstanding. Listened to it while driving, eating and even while bathing. Thanks to Bombay Kannan and his team that I was able to finish this masterpiece in a week. Wanted to read this classic for a long time but couldn't find time. The book continues to be admired and garner critical acclaim for its tightly woven plot and vivid narration, the wit of the dialogue, and the way in which the power struggle and intrigues of the Chola empire were depicted. The craze for the series, which was published weekly, was such that it elevated the magazine circulation to reach a staggering figure of 71,366 copies - no mean achievement in a newly independent India.Įven today, the novel has a cult following and fan base among people of all generations.

Ponniyin selvan audio book download free series#

It was first published as a series in the Kalki, a Tamil language magazine, during the 1950s and was later integrated into a novel. Ponniyin Selvan is widely considered by many to be the greatest novel ever written in Tamil literature. The book took more than three years to write Kalki visited Sri Lanka three times to gather information for it. In five volumes, it tells the story of early days of Arulmozhivarman, who later became the great Chola emperor Rajaraja Chola I. Ponniyin Selvan is a historical novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy, written in Tamil.