'Films like Roja and Bombay, at that point of time, were not something about which I would be too worried.' 'I thought if I'm honest and if I'm reflecting what a normal person like me is feeling, then that honesty will come through.'
'He's always been an all-inspiring kind of director that nobody can surpass,' R Madhavan tells Subhash K Jha about Mani Ratnam.
Karthik Kumar is coming out of the 'US returned Mappilai' tag that Mani Ratnam started casting him in Alai Payuthey. He talks about his new film Ethuvum Nadakkum.
Does the "story" of a Mani Ratnam film come first or does its "spirit" asks Sreehari Nair.
Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor will play the lead in KJo's film.
'If you take the credit when it works, you have to take the blame when a film flops.'
Deepa Gahlot lists 10 popular Mani Ratnam films that you can watch on streaming platforms.
Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor don't burn the screen with passion but there's a pleasant sense to their togetherness, feels Sukanya Verma.
'The younger generation may be hip, modern and Westernised outside, but there is something very Indian and traditional in them.' 'It's debatable just how good the concept of marriage is, but this is the only system that has survived over centuries.'
Yet, for all his belief in the goodness of life, Mani's films show that life is too complicated for goodness to permeate it completely.