Ponniyin Selvan PS 1 End Credits & Ending Explained: Mani Ratnam’s magnum-opus has finally made its way to the Box-Office and a wait, for many is over. While Mani Ratnam’s film is a little lengthier in runtime, it does well to do justice to each of the characters and that’s a very good point about the film.
Not only that, the ending of the film which created a pathway for the second one “PS-2” is something that we did not expect and something else happened that was unexpected and quite confusing. Here’s the ending of the film
Towards the end, Vanthiyathevan is with Arulmozhi Varman in Singla where he has only enemies, one would be the king of Singla who wants to kill him but had to retaliate when Arulmozhi Varman’s army was overwhelmingly powerful over his. Others are the Pandiya Assassins that want to avenge the murder of their king at the hands of Adithya Karikalan, elder brother of Arulmozhi Varman.
After Arulmozhi Varman realizes that there are enemies out there, he disguises as normal folk and makes an escape to where his Chola soldiers, who have come to take him back to Tanjore over the orders of the Crown making Vanthiyathevan disguise as the Crown Prince.
After getting to the Chola soldiers and finding them dead, he finds Vanthiyathevan tied to a mast of a ship and goes to save him but finds him cornered by enemies everywhere on the ship. After fighting with them, amidst a sea storm, the ship breaks and everyone drowns, including Vanthiyathevan & Arulmozhi Varman the film ends with the news spreading to the whole kingdom.
However, we see after the ending in a glimpse of the second film that a woman with white hair that had saved him in his childhood when he was drowning in the Ponni river, is swimming in the ocean near the sunk ship which can mean that she saves him because as said earlier by Arulmozhi Varman, she has always come to save him whenever his life has been in danger.