#nandhini

[ahamasmiyodhah]

𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑

Two Queen of their own Realm,

Are at war, thriving hard.

A war without weapons,

A war of conspiracies and tactics.

One is ready to burn down

The world in Vengeance,

While other is desperately

Trying to save it.

Unknown to their destinies they fight,

Ready to stake anything and everything

To achieve their goal.

But for what? Asked a voice.

For Family. Came an answer.

One wishes the love

And warmth of family,

While the other tries to keep

Her family intact and safe.

Two Queens of their own realm,

Are at war, thriving hard.

— 𝙆𝙝𝙮𝙖𝙩𝙞

@vishnavishivaa @mahi-wayy @yehsahihai @xxdritaxx @houseofbreadpakoda @ramayantika @warnermeadowsgirl @mayakimayahai @chaliyaaa @celestesinsight @sambaridli @desigurlie @hum-suffer @zeherili-ankhein @thegleamingmoon @stxrrynxghts @ulaganayagi @voidsteffy @nidhi-writes @thecrazyinktrovert @anantarashmi

[mahi-wayy]

ponniyin selvan moodboards bcz I need palate cleanser. @ahamasmiyodhah @harinishivaa

[jukti-torko-golpo]

Ilaiyor Soodar

Youth won't adorn themselves with you,

Nor bangled lasses pluck and gather you,

The bard won't gently bend your stem

With the bow of his harp to pluck and wear you,

Nor will the songstress sport you in her hair,

Why do you still bloom in this Ollaiyur, O Jasmine?

- translation by Chenthil Nathan

[asiancentral]

AISHWARIYA RAI as Nandhini in Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) dir. Mani Ratnam

[nidhi-writes]

The Shades of ArunMozhi Varman aka Raja Raja Chozhan.

Let know what others should I do...

[deadloverscity]

#PONNIYINSELVAN : veera chozha veera (please pretend the glitch foes not exist)

[willkatfanfromasia]

Aditha Karikalan vs Pazhuvettarayar -

Who's the better option for Nandini? by yours truly

1) PP married and owned up to their union publicly; he gave her titles, prestige and the respectability of marriage. 💲💵💰🏧

-AK couldn't because he was too young to overrule his family. However, he definitely would've thrown a fit to marry her had the beheading not happened.

2)Marrying a vassal king comes with several benefits (as discussed with @celestesinsight @thereader-radhika @ambidextrousarcher)

As the junior wife of the treasurer, she had tons of privilege and not much responsibility except showing up to events. Close enough to the throne (to make moves) but away enough to not deal directly.

- Nandini's already been burned by flying too close to the sun. AK's status as crown prince made the brides-shortlist very strict.

3) PP, till the flood, trusts her word easily. Even when confronted with doubts he thinks the best of her.

-AK is jealous af and accuses her of seducing all his friends. This is a result of his own insecurity- Had he married her, he wouldn't have been toxic and possibly been pretty decent as per 10th century standards.

4) Because we have bare minimum expectations, PP respects Nandini's wishes and doesn't force himself on her (she successfully gives excuses/alva always). AK is depicted as a thorough gentleman and would respect her wishes- but won't wait 3 years. Then again, Nandini won't give excuses if she were married to him😂

5) Nandini is forced into kundhavai's company sometimes due to her being PP's wife. As AK's wife she'd constantly be in her presence 🌚

6) Creeps like Parthi and Kandhanmaran presume they have a chance with her because she's married to an old man (who is either not her choice or can't *ehm*👀 satisfy her). As AK's wife they wouldn't dare flirt with her (no matter how tempting she may be) - lest they lose a limb or an eye.

Pls add your thoughts and analysis

@thereader-radhika @celestesinsight @ambidextrousarcher @harinishivaa @vibishalakshman @favcolourrvibgior @sowlspace @yehsahihai and anyone interested in my pointless musing

[thereader-radhika]

Fanfiction prompt: Someone advises Vanathi to be vary of Kundavai

Does Vanathi know the complete history of Kundavai and Nandini?

When they first met, Kundavai was so jealous of Nandini and called her owl-faced and bullied her. She didn't like her brothers interracting with her. But after Aditha Karikalan left for a battle, she and Nandini became best friends. When Karikalan returned after two years, he observed that Nandini's expensive clothes and jewellery were gifted by Kundavai. Nandini was shy to talk to him as in the old times but he seeked her out and both fell for each other, which angered Kundavai. Even at the end, she considered Nandini a gold-digger who pursued Veera Pandyan and her brother.

Has Vanathi ever imagined the consequences of offending her Kundavai akka in some manner? If she wasn't the Kodumbaloor princess but just another orphan girl like Nandini, she wouldn't have been considered to even dust Arulmozhi's sandals. Kundavai starts dreaming about the lost opportunity to end Chola-Pandya war by conducting Nandini-Aditha Karikalan marriage after she learns that she could have been Veera Pandyan's daughter.

Maybe it is one of the disgruntled girls in Kundavai's retuine who tells Vanathi that her position isn't as enviable as she thinks. How will Vanathi react? Will she find solace in the fact that she is actually a princess with the backing of a powerful clan and doesn't have to worry about hypothetical scenarios?

@harinishivaa @celestesinsight @ambidextrousarcher @whippersnappersbookworm @sampigehoovu @sakhiiii @thelekhikawrites

[grishaxverse]

I’m a child of divorce actually

[tamlindudley]

Being the masochist that I am, I watched that scene from PS2 again and it never fails to wreck me. Vikram and Aish are amazing and Vikram's smile right before he dies kills me every damn time. Aditha has finally found peace but with his fall, I realized, also falls Nandhini's power. His life was the source of her power and her anger, and when that's gone, she's nothing but a shell of a person. They're may not have been together but their life was intertwined the whole way. The most tragic couple ever.

[nspwriteups]

Kannalane Chapter 5: Rupturing of Hearts

A/N: heavy angst

It was well late into the night when Nandini was woken up by the knocking on the door. She glanced at the still sleeping Kaveri and Ananda before watching her father open the door while rubbing his eyes. Immediately three soldiers badged in with drawn swords in their hands. "Sooryanarayanan" One of them said in a deep menacing voice. "Gather your belongings. You are being displaced". "What?" Sooryanarayanan said, half in disbelief and half in protest "What do you mean? Why are we being dragged out like this?" The soldier raised his sword "Who are you to question me? Just do as you are being told and you can keep your life. Otherwise we'll throw all your bodies into river Ponni". Nandini grabbed her father's arm, and she felt someone tug on her clothes and understood that Kaveri has also woken up. "Go pack" Sooryanarayanan said finally "But I want to know on whose orders are being treated this way. What crime have we done?" His question to the armed soldiers went unanswered as they were busy trying not to make any sounds that might wake up the neighbours. But Nandini had a realisation of what could have caused this unexpected visit. A certain elderly woman and her cold stare flashed through her mind but she couldn't bring herself to beleive it. Oh Krishna! Let that not be the case. Please let this be some sort of misunderstanding and everything go back to the way it was. She silently prayed as she tied up her bundle of clothes. Sooryanarayanan put a sleepy Ananda on his shoulders and climbed into the bullock cart that the soldiers indicated to along with his daughters, mumbling about how he would try to consult the king and bring this injustice to light. But Nandini couldn't join him in his affirmation because the reality of things was dawning upon her. "Akka" she heard Kaveri call her and turned "We are being told to go because you fell in love with him aren't we?" Kaveri whispered so that their father couldn't hear the words. Her voice held no hatred, just a tinge of sadness in not seeing her friends anymore and moreover not seeing her family in their previous bliss. Nandini thought back to how she wouldn't be able to see Vishaka anymore. Nor any more of her enjoying the peace of the Banyan tree. Nor any more horse ride with a boy she has come to love with all her heart. She held Kaveri close, failing to keep the tears from escaping.

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Vishaka stared at the burnt down house of her Sakhi. The news that spread was how the house of Sooryanarayanan was robbed and how the house was set on fire with the inhabitants perishing with it. By the time the neighbours took note of the flames and smoke and put out the fire, it had turned into ashes. Everyone believed that the family died and mourned their loss.But Vishaka wasn't able to believe it. She had her suspicions - Why didn't they hear any commotion or any screaming? She thought back to how Nandini narrated her meeting with Aditha's family and especially about Patti's hot and cold behaviour towards her. Although Nandini accepted the explanation of Aditha's, that some people generally have a strict demeanor and Patti was one of those people. But Vishaka was unable to digest the fact easily. She have heard stories of how girls from lower influencial families are intimidated and threatened to withdraw from any relationship they might have with boys from aristocratic families. She was afraid for the safety of her best friend and resolved to make Nandini see sense the next morning but apparently she was too late. She sat in the ground in front of the burnt house with Suseel supporting her weight as silent tears ran down her cheeks. Amidst the chaos of people enquiring and grieving, she saw a familiar face - a shocked and confused Aditha. 

"Look what you have done! " She screamed at him, and Aditha looked at her helplessly "You have destroyed a girl's life along with her family just because she fell victim to your false affections" 

Suseel squeezed her shoulders, noticing the crowd whispering to each other, "Vishaka, stop accusing people like Aditha without any evidence. You'll get in trouble " 

Aditha approached her by now, "I don't know…." He began to say in a feeble voice, face overwhelmed with grief

"Go and ask your family" Vishaka hissed at him "And if what we see today is your family's doing then then I curse you with unhappiness. You won't be merry by destroying the dreams of a girl that you encouraged endlessly" 

Suseel assumed that Aditha was going to shout back at Vishaka or order her imprisonment for allegedly accusing him but all he saw was Aditha getting on his horse and rushing out of the crowd.

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Shivarama was getting ready to go to court when an angry Aditha stormed into his chamber "I am sorry for intruding like this Appa" he said "But I need to know something right at this moment" 

"Aditha" He heard Adithi Devi come towards him "What is all this noise? Come, have something to eat" 

"No Amma" He said impatiently " I want to know what fault you saw in Nandini that you dared to do such a degrading act" 

"Aditha" Shivarama's voice thundered inside the chamber "I have told you never to accuse someone before knowing all the facts. What are you insinuating?"

Aditha narrated what happened to Nandini's family and their house.

"Oh Shiva!" Adithi said exclaimed, with a hand on her heart "And you think we are capable of committing such a cruel act?"

"I don't know!" Aditha said exasperated "But I do know that they aren't dead. I can feel it. They are alive. She is alive and I'll search and find her" 

"Impossible!" He turned around to see Mrinalini Devi " I didn't undergo this much trouble just so you can find her and bring her back" 

Adithi Devi gasped while Shivarama and Aditha stared at the elderly woman

"Patti, what did you do?" He asked in disbelief, that the Patti he knew who told him stories of brave kings and warriors, and always told him to follow his heart was capable of stomping on it.

"What a mature person who cares about her family ought to do" Mrinalini Devi stood her ground. "I understand your infatuation with this girl but what good would a priest's daughter be? Say the word and I'll present more beautiful and wealthy girls from all over Choza Nadu"

"No one can hold a candle to my Nandini "

"You think I am heartless?"

"I think you are underestimating my love" 

"Foolish child!" Mrinalini shouted "Although I don't know where they are now, go and search to your heart's desire. The day you'll bring her in front of me again will be the day I'll acknowledge the depth of the love that you profess. I'll do aarti and welcome her as this family's daughter in law myself" saying this she left the chamber, leaving behind a determined looking Aditha and a baffled Adithi and Shivarama.

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The family of Sooryanarayanan was at a changing point in their lives. The soldiers dropped them off at the outskirts of Choza Nadu. For the rest of the night, they took shelter under a tree. In the morning they travelled to Pandiya Nadu and entered a forest where they saw an abandoned Hut and decided to take shelter there. Sooryanarayanan secured a position as a poojari in the nearby temple but he kept a low profile. He still didn't understood why there were exiled from their homeland but he had a feeling that even if he protest against it, he might lose as there seemed to be an invisible influential force acting behind their displacement. He often discussed this with his eldest daughter. "Listen Nandini" He said one day to her "I am growing weak. I may not be able to see all of you grow up and succeed in life. But promise me you'll take care of yourself and your siblings and never let anyone lead your mind to corruption" 

Nandini promised him but deep inside she felt her mind was already corrupted with guilt. The fact that her decision to fall in love with Aditha and dared to dream of a secure future with him was the reason they were living as refugees in a strange land. She could no longer hide this truth from her father and so one night when her brother and sister were asleep, she decided to confide in her father.

Sooryanarayanan listened to her with surprising patience and continued to think deeply. He was jolted to present when he felt Nandini touch his feet. "Forgive me Appa" She said amidst crying. He asked her to be seated near him and turned her face towards him. 

"Kanne, thank you for confessing to me" He began "But never apologise for falling in love. God has created humans with the sole purpose of propagating the message that one should love and care for each other at all times. Isn't it the society that has created Kings and aristocrats and priest's out of ordinary human beings? Strip off all the crown and the silk clothes and the Pooja thaalis and there'll be nothing to distinguish one human from another. All are same. If what happened to our family was in reality instrumented by Mrinalini Devi, then isn't it evidence that we are so obsessed with status and power that we simply fail to recognise abstract ideas such as love and kindness?" 

Nandini couldn't stop her tears as she realised how compassionate and understanding her father is. Sooryanarayanan held his dear first born daughter close.

"If you trust that Shivarama's son doesn't believe in social construct and will do anything in his power to reverse his family's action then kepp hoping in your love. Because without love we will only be a shell of flesh and bones. If you don't beleive so, then forget him, Kanne"

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To be continued…..

Chapter 6 Promo:

"Oh Devi" Aditha saw the woman slowly turn around towards them. He was about to ask the way towards the city but the words seemed to be stuck in his throat as he stared at the woman in front of him. He would have recognised those eyes anywhere, the eyes that he searched and haunted him for 7 long years. And the Chempaka flower that was tucked in her hair bun. The woman also stared back at him, at first with confusion at his sudden appearance then with caution at his armour and weapon and at last locked eyes with him, where her eyes widened with shock and confirmed his suspicions. 

"Chempaka" he whispered and watched the pot of water slip from her hands and fall to the ground. 

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[ahamasmiyodhah]

Ponniyin Selvan characters in modern AU

Adithya Karikalan — Owner of Multinational Company.

Kundhavai — CEO of Adithya's company and his sister and owner of her own Clothing Brand

Arulmozhi Varman — beloved younger brother of Adithan and Kundhavai. Harvard Graduate and works with Adithya.

Vanathi — Kundhavai's assistant and has a crush on AMV

Poonguzhali — Influencer and Cruise Manager

Senthan Amudhan / Madhuranthakan — Environmentalist and youngest uncle of Adithya, Kundhavai and Arulmozhi

Vandiyadevan — Adithya's friend and assistant. In a situationship with Kundhavai

Nandhini — a Poor Girl but now a Self Made Businesswoman, was Adithya's lover but now his rival.

@thatacademic @vibishalakshman @dr-scribbler @kovaipaavai @rang-lo @willkatfanfromasia @hollogramhallucination @deadloverscity what's your view on this?

[mahi-wayy]

"Who made you into this?" "Love."

[dearabhi]

listening to chinnanjiru nilave 24/7 isn't enough, i want them to be imprinted in my soul

[pazhavoorilayarani]

Discovering the only person who truly loved you is the one you've been actively trying to kill for years now... 🤨

Screw Veera Pandiyan.

@the-deceased-tiger you should have killed him more painfully.

[nidhi-writes]

Kundhavai: *Here we go again* Now what you should do when you go in front of ArunMozhi?

Vaanathi: I will try to flirt with him.

Kundhavai: Good. Now what you should not do?

Vaanathi: *trying to process the answer*

Kundhavai: *expecting her to say something*

Vaanathi: Should not faint before the Prince

Kundhavai: Good! now go and do what I taught you.

Vaanathi prays and walks toward Arunmozhi

ArunMozhi: *Smiles seeing her*

Vaanathi: *Operation command: FAINT*

ArunMozhi: *Watched worriedly as she faints*

Kundhavai: *Whispers* I am never getting a sister-in-law.

Kundhavai: *trying to teach and import all her flirting skills to Vaanathi.* Vaanthi: *trying to stay awake.*

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