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Ramayana Reloaded
Men On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (Image courtesy: Raavan Official Site) Towards the end of Mani Ratnam’s long-awaited Raavan (2010), one of the characters looks at the camera and says “You...
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Book Nook: Conversations With Mani Ratnam
Conversations With Mani Ratnam Baradwaj Rangan Penguin/Viking, 2012 Somewhere near the midpoint of noted Indian film critic Baradwaj Rangan’s Conversations with Mani Ratnam lies a startling,...
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Ellipsis #68
Kadal (2013) (The Sea) Mani Ratnam Tamil The title of Mani Ratnam’s latest feature, Kadal (“The Sea”, 2013), conjures images of vastness, infinity and extremity. Like the sea monsters of many a...
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Bombay Blues
Mani Ratnam’s new film, OK Kanmani, opens rather atypically, with a bloody in-game sequence cut to the track Kaara Attakaara (“player”): a strange mix of irony and foreboding that contrasts the...
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