Mani Ratnam

Mani Ratnam () (born June 2, 1956) is a Tamil Indian movie director, writer and producer.

Filmography
The following is the list of movies directed by Mani Ratnam. For many of these movies, Mani Ratnam is also credited for the story, screenplay and producing:

Director

 Year  Film  Language  Cast  Music Director Notes 1983  Pallavi Anu Pallavi Kannada  Anil Kapoor, Lakshmi  Ilaiyaraaja  Dubbed into Tamil as Oh! Priya Priya 1985  Unaru Malayalam  Mohanlal, Sukumaran, Sabina Jose  Ilaiyaraaja    1985  Pagal Nilavu Tamil  Murali, Revathi Menon, Radhika Sarath Kumar, Sathyaraj  Ilaiyaraaja   1985  Idaya Kovil Tamil  Mohan, Radha, Ambika, Goundamani  Ilaiyaraaja   1986  Mouna Raagam Tamil  Mohan, Revathi, Karthik   Ilaiyaraaja   Dubbed into Telugu as Mouna Raagam 1987  Nayagan Tamil  Kamal Haasan, Saranya, Nassar, Janagaraj  Ilaiyaraaja   Dubbed into Hindi as NayakDubbed into Telugu as Nayakudu 1988  Agni Natchathiram Tamil  Prabhu, Karthik, Vijayakumar, Nirosha, Amala, Janagaraj, Jayachitra  Ilaiyaraaja   Dubbed into Telugu as Gharshana 1989  Geethanjali Telugu  Nagarjuna, Girija, Vijayakumar  Ilaiyaraaja   Dubbed into Tamil as Idhayathai ThirudatheyDubbed into Malayalam as Geethanjali 1990  Anjali Tamil  Raghuvaran, Revathi, Prabhu, Tarun Kumar, Shamili, Shruti, Saranya  Ilaiyaraaja   Dubbed into Telugu as Anjali 1991  Thalapathi Tamil  Rajinikanth, Mammooty, Arvind Swamy, Amrish Puri, Sobhana, Bhanupriya, Srividya, Geetha, Jaishankar  Ilaiyaraaja   Dubbed into Telugu as Dalapati Dubbed into Hindi as Dal-pati 1992  Roja Tamil  Arvind Swamy, Madhubala, Pankaj Kapoor, Nassar, Janagaraj  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into English as The RoseDubbed into Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi as Roja 1993  Thiruda Thiruda Tamil  Prashanth, Anand, Heera Rajgopal, Anu Agarwal, Balasubrahmanyam  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into Hindi as Chor ChorDubbed into Telugu as Donga Donga 1995  Bombay Tamil  Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Nassar, Prakash Raj   A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into Hindi and Telugu as Bombay 1997  Iruvar Tamil  Mohanlal, Aishwarya Rai, Prakash Raj, Madhubala, Tabu, Revathi, Gouthami, Nassar    A. R. Rahman   Dubbed into Telugu as Iddaru 1998  Dil Se(Uyerea in tamil) Hindi  Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into Tamil as UyireDubbed into Telugu as Prema Tho 2000  Alaipayuthey Tamil  Madhavan, Shalini, Arvind Swamy, Kushboo, Vivek, Sukumari, Lalitha, Jayasudha, Pyramid Natarajan  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into English as WavesDubbed into Telugu as Sakhiremade into Hindi as Saathiya 2002  Kannathil Muthamittal Tamil  Madhavan, Simran, Nandita Das, Keerthana, Prakash Raj, Pasupathy  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into English as A Peck on the CheekDubbed into Telugu as Amrutha 2004  Aayitha Ezhuthu Tamil  Madhavan, Surya Sivakumar, Siddharth Narayan, Meera Jasmine, Esha Deol, Trisha, Bharathiraja, Janagaraj  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into Telugu as Yuva Dubbed into English as The Three Dots  2004  Yuva Hindi  Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherjee, Esha Deol, Kareena Kapoor, Om Puri  A. R. Rahman  2007  Guru Hindi  Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai,  Madhavan, Vidya Balan, Mallika Sherawat, Mithun Chakraborty  A. R. Rahman  Dubbed into Tamil as GuruDubbed into Telugu as Gurukanth 2010  Ravana Hindi  Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai,  Vikram,   A. R. Rahman  This film is in both Tamil and HindiDubbed into Telugu as Villain

Non-Director
Mani Ratnam established Madras Talkies for movie production during the shoot of Iruvar. Mani Ratnam had earlier produced Thiruda Thiruda under his personal name. All movies directed by Mani Ratnam subsequent to Iruvar have been produced through Madras Talkies. Apart from production, Mani Ratnam also has written story and screenplay for movies directed by others.

 Indira (1996) - Screenplay (Movie was directed by his wife Suhasini)
 Gayam (1993) - Story & Screenplay (Telugu Movie)
 Chatriyan - Story & Screenplay
 Tajmahal - Story & Screenplay
 Aasai (1995) - Producer
 Nerrukku Ner (1997) - Producer (Madras Talkies)
 Dumm Dumm Dumm (2001) - Story & Screenplay
 Saathiya (2002) - Screenplay (Movie is a re-make of Alaipayuthey and was directed by his assistant Shaad Ali) and Producer (Madras Talkies)
 Five Star (2003) - Producer (Madras Talkies)
Writer
 Years  movie  Role  Notes 2010  Raavan  screenplay  The movie of Raavan's Screenplay was written by Mani Ratnam 2010  Raavanan  Story  2007  Guru  screenplay  2004  Ayitha Ezhuthu    2004  Yuva  screenplay   2002  Saathiya  story & screenplay   2002  Kannathil Muthamittal  screenplay & story   2001  Waves  dialogue, screenplay & story   1998  Dil Se..  story & screenplay   1997  The Duo  screenplay & story   1996  Indira (Priyanka)  screenplay   1995  Bombay  screenplay & story   1994  Thiruda Thiruda    1993  Gaayam  screenplay & story   1992  Roja     1991  Thalapathi  screenplay & story   1990  Anjali  screenplay & story   1989  Gitanjali  screenplay & story   1988  Agni Natchathiram    1987  Nayakan    1985  Pagal Nilavu     1983  Pallavi Anu Pallavi   

Other websites

 Director Mani Ratnam: A living Legend in Film Making 
 Technical Analysis of Mani Ratnam Films 
 Mani Ratnam and A. R. Rahman
 Mani Ratnam: Brief film descriptions 
 A Mani Ratnam Interview 
 Mani Ratnam - article and interview 
Interview with Bharathan Kandaswamy and Mani Ratnam 

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