Question: Do director of film Idaya Kovil and director of film Foreign Intrigue (Film) share the same nationality?

The score and soundtrack were composed by Ilaiyaraaja which went on to become huge hits. The film did well at the box office. Idaya Kovil is a 1985 Indian Tamil language film directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Mohan, Ambika, Radha and Goundamani. <SEP> Brian Johnson( born 1939 or 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects. <SEP> The film is written, produced and directed by Sheldon Reynolds, who had produced a television series called" Foreign Intrigue" in 1951. Foreign Intrigue is a 1956 American Eastmancolor film noir crime film starring Robert Mitchum Foreign Intrigue was one of the first major Hollywood films to be based on a popular TV series. <SEP> He began his career as producer, writer and editor of the syndicated television show" Foreign Intrigue". In 1954, he produced the first American television show to feature the Holmes and Watson characters," Sherlock Holmes", which( except in two instances) did not directly adapt Conan- Doyle's original Holmes stories. It starred Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion- Crawford as Watson. In 1979, he was involved in the creation of another Sherlock Holmes adaptation, the television series" Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson", which was considerably less successful. Sheldon Reynolds( 10 December 1923 – 25 January 2003) was an American television producer best known for his involvement in the Sherlock Holmes franchise. In the 1970s, Reynolds attempted to acquire a license to produce direct adaptations of the stories. At that time, the rights were in the hands of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which acquired them after the previous owner defaulted on a loan. Reynolds successfully formed a consortium which acquired the rights at auction. Much of the money for the consortium came from the family of Reynold's then- wife, Andrea Reynolds- Plunket. After their divorce in 1990, she pursued the ownership of the American copyright in a number of court cases, but her claims were rejected. In the 1957 -1958 season, Reynolds became executive producer of an American sitcom filmed in England," Dick and the Duchess", starring Patrick O'Neal and Hazel Court. Reynolds died of emphysema. <SEP> Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV. <SEP> In 2002, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, acknowledging his contributions to film. Despite being born into a film family, Mani Ratnam did not develop any interest in films when he was young. Upon completion of his post graduation in management, he started his career as a consultant. He entered the film industry through the 1983 Kannada film" Pallavi Anu Pallavi". The failure of his subsequent films would mean that he was left with fewer offers. However, his fifth directorial outing," Mouna Ragam"( 1986), established him as a leading filmmaker in Tamil cinema. Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam( born 2 June 1956), commonly known by his screen name Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He followed that with" Nayakan"( 1987). Mani Ratnam is well known for his" Terrorism trilogy" consisting of" Roja"( 1992)," Bombay"( 1995), and" Dil Se.."( 1998). He is married to actress Suhasini and has a son with her. He has won several film awards and nominations including six National Film Awards, six Filmfare Awards South and three Bollywood Filmfare Awards.