Conversations With Mani Ratnam - Hardcover

Rangan, Baradwaj

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9780670085200: Conversations With Mani Ratnam

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ISBN 10: 0670085200 ISBN 13: 9780670085200

Publisher: Penguin Global, 2013

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A sumptuous treat for serious lovers of cinema as well as the casual moviegoer! selling points: first-ever book on the reclusive, superbly talented film-director, mani ratnam. Covers all 20 films of mani ratnam in depth, with lavishly illustrated with over 130 b/w pix and 36 colour pix. ‘one of the international-standard filmmakers in india. This wonderful book is a tribute to his genius.’—rajinikanth. Personalized foreword by a.r. Rahman. The author is a national award winning film critic. The book: his nayakan is among time’s ‘100 best movies ever’ and roja launched a.r. Rahman. This book, unique for indian cinema, illuminates the genius of the man behind these and eighteen other masterly films. For the first time ever, mani ratnam opens up here to baradwaj rangan, about his art, as well as his life before films. In these freewheeling conversations, candid, witty, pensive and sometimes combative, many aspects of his films are explored. Mani elaborates in a personal vein o

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About the Author:

Baradwaj Rangan is a National Award-winning film critic, currently Deputy Editor at the Hindu. His writings on cinema, music, art, books, travel and humour have been published in various national magazines like Open, Tehelka, Biblio, Outlook and the Caravan. He has co-written the screenplay for the Tamil rom-com Kadhal 2 Kalyanam . He teaches a course on cinema at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.

A.R.Rahman is an Indian film composer, record producer, musician and singer. His film scoring career began in the early 1990s. He has won twenty five Filmfare Awards, four National Film Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, two Grammys and two Academy Awards.

Working in India's various film industries, international cinema and theatre, by 2003, Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sol...d more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide, and sold over 200 million cassettes, making him one of the world's all-time top selling recording artists.

Time Magazine has referred to him as the "Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil commentators have coined him the nickname Isai Puyal ( English: Music Storm).

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