It was magical to witness the real history of Chola Dynasty. Movie is realistic not exaggerated the characters. Fight scenes were realistic and not like fantasy or unrealistic fight scenes. This film was portrayed realistically how kings were during ancient time.
Also some scenes mentioning Sri Lanka is not realistic, especially shore area of Sri Lanka doesnโt have mountains (except trincomalees port) ( Iโm not quiet sure about earlier time how it was) but mostly film potray the Thondaman aaru and Naga theevu, which doesnโt have mountains.
I felt this film overall gave realistic view of chola kingdom and portrayed tamil largest chola kingdom perfectly.
Hope part 2 will be made flawlessly and without hiding the names and flags (they should have given more visibility for flags and some place names)