Category: Mani Ratnam
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Niruthanum…Ellathayum Niruthanum !!
Filled with tight close-ups and trolley shots, the 5 minute sequence where Deva – Surya meet Arvind Swamy, is probably one of the best edited scenes in kollywood. The broad view of Arvind Swamy’s office is never shown until the conflict happens. Until then the camera just captures the emotions on the faces. As the…
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Guru !!
[Source – Madras Talkies. Via – Brijesh] There is this relatively old rumor[a month old] that Mani Ratnam‘s latest flick will be a Bollywood film with Aamir Khan. Few days back, they let the cat more or less out of the bag that Mani is looking to direct another bollywood flick with Abhishek, Aish and…
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Mani Ratnam on Personal Film-making
I think we are on the threshold of development. Today, a lot more films are made for an international audience. Technology will play a big role with the growth of the digital medium. Filmmaking will become a lot more personal. It will become like writing. Anybody will be able to make a film. Those are…
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Nayakan on All-‘Time’ Top 100 Movies
Bollywood is shorthand for Bombay Hollywood, seat of the largest Indian film industry. But it manufactures only about 200 of the thousand or so Indian feature films; a half-dozen regions boast production sites larger than most of the world?s national cinemas. Madras, capital of the Tamil state, is one such place, and its leader –…
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A Mani Ratnam scoop or a spoof
[Click the image for a bigger version] A friend of mine, Karthi, did forward the above pic with a subject – Mani Ratnam’s New Film, Aalayam. I probably wanted to verify the source and then post this. Am not posting this to make a scoop out of it or to bring in a speculation. Infact,…
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