Reports said the searches started in eight places including T Nagar, Adyar, and Karapakkam.
The film was said to be a biopic of Dhirubhai Ambani, however, Ratnam had dismissed the claims back then.
The film will release in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam theatres.
Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan Part 1 is scheduled to be have a worldwide theatrical release on 30 September 2022 in both standard and IMAX format.
Ponniyin Selvan's teaser was released in five Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.
The film stars Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Trisha, Vikram Prabhu, Sobhita Dhulipala, Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Jayaram, and Parthiban in the lead roles.
The period drama is based on Kalki Krishnamurthy's Tamil novel Ponniyin Selvan and has been bankrolled by Lyca Productions and Madras Talkies.
The Indian Tamil-language epic historical drama film is written, directed, and co-produced by Mani Ratnam, under his production studio Madras Talkies, along with Allirajah Subaskaran under...
Filmmakers like Arvind Swamy (in his directorial debut), Gautham Vasudev Menon, Bejoy Nambiar, Bejoy Nambiar, Karthik Subbaraj, KV Anand, Rathindran Prasad, Ponram and Halitha Shameem will...
An FIR was lodged on Thursday, October 4, in Bihar's Muzaffarpur against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written...