Mani Ratnam is one of the famous and most successful directors of South Indian Cinema who made movies in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. He is also one of the talented director in Bollywood who is acclaimed for revolutionizing the Indian movie industry to a different level. He is known for his combination of substance and style which brings more box office hits. Several international news papers and various agencies acclaimed his work.
Mani Ratnam List of Movies
Mani Ratnam is credited for his eye for technical details in his work and revolutionized the art of film making. He Introduced the India's best music directors like AR Rahman, cinematographers, art directors , editors in Industry. Mani Ratnam list of Movies began from 1980's. His directoral work, mani ratnam first movie started in 1983 starring Anil Kapoor in kannada movie Pallavi Anu Pallavi. The film showcased the nature of a relationship between a young man and an elederly women. The top director Balu Mahendra did cinematography in this movie. This movie failed in box office.
In 1984, his efforts continued he directed a Malayalam movie Unaru which starred Mohanlal and other two Tamil films namely Pagal Nilavu and Idaha kovil. Mani's commercial success started in 1986 in the movie Mouna Ragam with Revathi and Mohan. The combination of Mastero Ilayaraja with Mani Ratnam become a huge success. He become a more successful director and screen play writer after the huge commercial success of Kamal Hassan starring Nayagan in 1987. The film talks about real life story of underworld don of Mumbai city, "Varadarajan Mudaliar".
The rise to a different level of legacy as the Nayagn was included in the TIME Magazine's all time 100 Greatest Movies.
In 1990's era the Mani Ratnam List of Movies travelled with lot of Box offfice Hits. In 1995 he supported his wife Suhashini Mani Ratnam directorial debut in "Indira". It is a women centric film but it failed in Box Office. In the same year he directed "Iruvar" starring Mohanlal and Praksah raj was a huge box office hit and he mentioned that is his finest work till date. The film won best film at the Festival of the Auteur Films in Belgrade.
His next work was a Hindi movie "Dil Se" starring Sharukh khan and Manisha Koirala and in 2000 he made "Alaipayuthae" starring R Madhavan and Shalini. This movie was a huge box office hit in Tamil Industry.
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His next movie was, Kannathil Muthamittal saw him tackling adoption through the eyes of a Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka searching for her biological mother. The film was a critically lauded commercial success, winning six National Film Awards, Ratnam's second Filmfare Award in the South for directing, his second In Spirit for Freedom Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and an award at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.
In 2004 his next movie was "Yuva" was Box office hit which was made in Hindi and Tamil. In tamil the movie named as "Ayutha Eluthu". In 2007 he started directing "Guru" which talks about the real life story of Legendary Indian Business Tycoon "Dhirubahi Ambani". The movie starring Abhishek Bachan and Aishwarya Bachan in lead role. The movie become one of the Biggest hits of 2007.
In 2010, he made "Raavan" starring Vikram was a commercial success in Tamil but the same movie starring Abhishek Bachan in Hindi failed in Box office. In 2013, his next tamil movie is "Kadal" and it was a huge box office failue. In 2015, his file O Kadhal Kanmani starring Dulquer Salman and Nithya Menon in lead role was a commercial success.
His next film was "Kaatru Veliyidai" was an average box office success starring Karthi , Aditi Rao Hydari and RJ Balaji. His next was Chekka Chivantha Vaanam is a multi starer. This movie was produced by Mani Ratnam's Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions, starring Vijay sethupathi, Silambarasan, Arvind Swami and Arun Vijay. This movie is a box office success.
Mani Ratnam Family
His father is Gopala Ratnam was a renowned movie distributor who worked for venus pictures in Tamil movie industry. Mani Ratnam Family is completely associated with film production and distribution. He is the second child in his family and his elder brother is G. Venkaeswaran in which later he produced lot of Mani Ratnam Films. His younger brother is G. Srinivasan who also later produced some of the Mani Ratnam films. Mani ratnam wife is Actress Suhashini and mani ratnam son name is Nandan.
Mani Ratnam Education
He did his schooling from Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School and graduated in Commerce from Vivekananda College, University of Madras. Mani Ratnam Education is Post Graduation in Management. He did his MBA From Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies which is ranked among top ten business schools in india, he take a career as a Management Consultant before start into film maker. Later, he started his production company Madras Talkies.
Mani Ratnam Birthday
Mani Ratnam Birthday is 2nd June, 1956. Despite he was born in film industry related family background he did not develop any interests in film related career in his young age. As an youngster he felt watching films is a waste of time however he started watching movies actively when he was studying in the Besant Tesophical school.
Mani Ratnam Movie List - As A Director
1983: Pallavi Anu Pallavi (Kannada)
1985: Unaru (Malayalam)
1985: Pagal Nilavu (Tamil)
1985: Idaya Kovil (Tamil)
1986: Mouna Raagam (Tamil)
1987: Nayagan (Tamil)
1988: Agni Natchathiram (Tamil)
1989: Geethanjali (Telugu)
1990: Anjali (Tamil)
1991: Thalapathi (Tamil)
1992: Roja (Tamil)
1993: Thiruda Thiruda (Tamil)
1995: Bombay (Tamil)
1997: Iruvar (Tamil)
1998: Dil Se (Hindi)
2000: Alaipayuthey (Tamil) - Remade into 'Saathiya' (Hindi)
2002: Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil)
2004: Aayitha Ezhuthu (Tamil)
2004: Yuva (Hindi) - Remake of 'Aayitha Ezhuthu'
2007: Guru (Hindi)
2010: Raavan
2013: Kadal
2015: O Kadal Kanmani
2017: Kaatru Veliyidai
2018: Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Mani Ratnam Movie List - As A Non-Director
1990 - Chatriyan (Tamil) - Story & Screenplay
1993 - Ghayam (Telugu) - Story & Screenplay
1995 - Indira (Tamil) - Screenplay
1995 - Aasai (Tamil) - Producer
1997 - Nerrukku Ner (Tamil) - Producer
2000 - Taj Mahal (Tamil) - Story
2001 - Dumm Dumm Dumm (Tamil) - Story, Screenplay & Producer
2002 - Saathiya (Hindi) - Screenplay & Producer
2003 - Five Star (Tamil) - Producer
Mani Ratnam Latest Movie
The Mani Ratnam Latest Movie is "Chekka Chivantha Vaanam" in Tamil. It is a multi star movie and produced by Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions. It is a come back movie for Mani Ratnam and it is a commercial success in Tamil Industry.
Mani Ratnam Telugu Movies
Mani Ratnam was a famous and most successful director and screen play writer. He directed in all top indian languages like Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
Mani Ratnam Telugu movies are Gitanjali, Mouna Raagam and Villian. The tamil version of Raavan was dubbed into Telugu and named as "Villian". Due to the success of Ilayaraja's music tracks the mouna raagam was subsequently dubbed into telugu. In 1989, actor Nagarjuna requested to make a movie with Mani Ratnam. Mani Ratnam only directed movie was Gitanjali starring Nagarjuna and Girija Shettar in the lead roles. The film won best director and best story writer award to Mani.
1983: Pallavi Anu Pallavi (Kannada)
1985: Unaru (Malayalam)
1985: Pagal Nilavu (Tamil)
1985: Idaya Kovil (Tamil)
1986: Mouna Raagam (Tamil)
1987: Nayagan (Tamil)
1988: Agni Natchathiram (Tamil)
1989: Geethanjali (Telugu)
1990: Anjali (Tamil)
1991: Thalapathi (Tamil)
1992: Roja (Tamil)
1993: Thiruda Thiruda (Tamil)
1995: Bombay (Tamil)
1997: Iruvar (Tamil)
1998: Dil Se (Hindi)
2000: Alaipayuthey (Tamil) - Remade into 'Saathiya' (Hindi)
2002: Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil)
2004: Aayitha Ezhuthu (Tamil)
2004: Yuva (Hindi) - Remake of 'Aayitha Ezhuthu'
2007: Guru (Hindi)
2010: Raavan
2013: Kadal
2015: O Kadal Kanmani
2017: Kaatru Veliyidai
2018: Chekka Chivantha Vaanam
Mani Ratnam Movie List - As A Non-Director
1990 - Chatriyan (Tamil) - Story & Screenplay
1993 - Ghayam (Telugu) - Story & Screenplay
1995 - Indira (Tamil) - Screenplay
1995 - Aasai (Tamil) - Producer
1997 - Nerrukku Ner (Tamil) - Producer
2000 - Taj Mahal (Tamil) - Story
2001 - Dumm Dumm Dumm (Tamil) - Story, Screenplay & Producer
2002 - Saathiya (Hindi) - Screenplay & Producer
2003 - Five Star (Tamil) - Producer
Mani Ratnam Latest Movie
The Mani Ratnam Latest Movie is "Chekka Chivantha Vaanam" in Tamil. It is a multi star movie and produced by Madras Talkies and Lyca Productions. It is a come back movie for Mani Ratnam and it is a commercial success in Tamil Industry.
Mani Ratnam Telugu Movies
Mani Ratnam was a famous and most successful director and screen play writer. He directed in all top indian languages like Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
Mani Ratnam Telugu movies are Gitanjali, Mouna Raagam and Villian. The tamil version of Raavan was dubbed into Telugu and named as "Villian". Due to the success of Ilayaraja's music tracks the mouna raagam was subsequently dubbed into telugu. In 1989, actor Nagarjuna requested to make a movie with Mani Ratnam. Mani Ratnam only directed movie was Gitanjali starring Nagarjuna and Girija Shettar in the lead roles. The film won best director and best story writer award to Mani.
Mani Ratnam Next Movie
The Mani Ratnam Next movie is big budget multi starrer "Ponniyin selvan". However the official confirmation is yet to made by the director. The film may cast Vikram, Jeyam ravi, simbu and vijay sethupathi. The project may kick off next year. The story is from the epic novel "Ponniyin Selvan" by Kalki.
Mani Ratnam Awards
Mani Ratnam was well recoginzed in India and as well as International. The Govt. of India Honured him Padma Shri award in 2002. Apart from these he won Filmfare Awards, National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards south and State Awards. Mani Ratnam Awards are Padma Shri Awards, Filmfare Awards and National as well as State Awards.
The Mani Ratnam Next movie is big budget multi starrer "Ponniyin selvan". However the official confirmation is yet to made by the director. The film may cast Vikram, Jeyam ravi, simbu and vijay sethupathi. The project may kick off next year. The story is from the epic novel "Ponniyin Selvan" by Kalki.
Mani Ratnam Awards
Mani Ratnam was well recoginzed in India and as well as International. The Govt. of India Honured him Padma Shri award in 2002. Apart from these he won Filmfare Awards, National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards south and State Awards. Mani Ratnam Awards are Padma Shri Awards, Filmfare Awards and National as well as State Awards.
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