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Mani Ratnam Contact Address, Phone Number, Email ID, Website
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Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam aka Mani Ratnam was born on 2nd June 1956 in Madurai, Madras State, India is a Film Director, Film Producer and Screenwriter working mainly in Tamil cinema. Mani is married to Suhasini in 1988, the couple also has a son named Nandhan who was born in 1992. He is also a founder of production house named Madras Talkies. He was born in a filmy background but was never interested in Filmmaking. He did his graduation from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Madras University, after this he earned his master’s degree in Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
After his graduation, he worked as a Consultant but was not happy with his job. He with his friends Ravi Shankar and S. Balachander were working on a Kannada movie but due to some issues, the movie shelved. After this in 1983, he made his debut as Director, Writer with Kannada movie Pallavi Anu Pallavi. He also directed a Malayalam movie named Unaru in 1984 and got a lot of appreciation. Afte this from 1985 – 1988 he did 5 consecutive Tamil movie which are Pagal Nilavu, Idaya Kovil, Mouna Ragam, Nayakan, and Agni Natchathiram. Also in Telugu cinema he tried his luck and directed Geethanjali in 1989, and the movie proved to be a hit, his 5 Tamil movies were in the queue which was Anjali in 1990, Chatriyan in 1990, Thalapathi in 1991, Roja in 1992, and Dasarathan in 1993, and in 1993 his two more movies were released Gaayam in Telugu language and Thiruda Thiruda in Tamil language.
1995 was his year, his 3 Tamil movies released which gave him the stardom he was waiting for which were Bombay, Indira and Aasai. In Tamil cinema Ratnam was becoming everyone’s choice, he was now an established big director. In 1997 he came up with 2 new movies Iruvar and Nerrukku Ner. In 1998 Mani made his debut in Hindi cinema with movie Dil Se…. and the movie was a big success. With his first movie, he proved that he was here to stay in Hindi cinema as well. From 1999 – 2002 all his Tamil movies were successful. In 2002-2004 he directed two Hindi movies named Saathiya and Yuva, both the films were a blockbuster hit. His next Tamil movie released in 2004 which was Aaytha Ezhuthu. He next came with serious movies named Guru and Raavan, where Guru was a big hit and on the other hand Raavan was a big flop. He remade Raavan as Raavanan in the Tamil language. His last Hindi movie was Ok Jaanu released in 2017 which was a youth-centric movie and failed to impress audiences and critics and became a flop, and his latest Tamil movie was Kaatru Veliyidai in 2017.
Mani has been awarded many prestigious awards like he was honoured with Padma Shri in 2002, and has many National Film Awards, Filmfare Awards Hindi and South and many more. Museum of the Moving Image, New York City paid a special tribute to Mani by screening his films like Roja, Bombay and Dil Se….
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