Films of Mani Ratnam

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Originally Posted by selvakumar

I wantted to comment on these things a bit. But staying away :yessir:

Bala,
It is unfair to say that "Mani is overhyped" when we can find faults in his narration. Even I had a similar opinion that - Mani is not great compared to the likes of SR, Bala, SJS etc sometime back ! May be - I decided these things after watching very few movies of Mani.

Presently, he is the best among the current directors and that is pretty acceptable. Mani had done great films in the past. Much like how our young directors are doing. "We need to wait and see how our present directors give movies after 5 to 10 films and then arrive at a conclusion". I think no one will deny the fact that Mani is currently the NO.1 when it comes to *directors*.

I have not yet seen GURU. But heard that it is much better when compared to AE, Iruvar etc :) Not sure though. Guess - Mani started crippling with AE. I was :evil: when I watched the film. A bit of "Manda Kaanchu PoNa" effect and the "feel good" factor that was present in "Iruvar" was missing and the characters looked :evil:

OTOH, There are much better movies like "Agni Natchathiram", "Mouna Raagam" etc from Mani :wink: He had used the same style of narration in those movies and thus carving a unique style for himself. I don't have any problem with the "short dialogues", "partial narration" etc though ! :)

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iruvar is a great movie from mani i thought.it didnt do weel in Bo though it had a very good script.except double aish,everything was good.uh oh!expalain plz why iruvar didnt interest u selva...

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Originally Posted by MADDY

i agree with most of points on Iruvar which is a tamil film and which was a pretty lack lustre film......

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you say WHAT ??

Iruvar is a tamil film and it was a lackluster film, is it?? :shock:

All his hindi movies are worse than most of his tam movies and iruvar is better than all of this hindi/bilinguals :twisted:

I read in KUMUDAM interview Mani is going to join hands with IR very soon. Is that true..?

Only When Hell Freezes..

http://www.indiafm.com/movies/boxoff...838/index.html

Guru is a hit..... 8-) .......considering only 15 crores was the expenditure.......

i stick to my arguement that still Mumbai is Mani's stronghold and not chennai..... 8-) ........this time with link...

Mumbai - 4.4 crores + 2.4 crores
Chennai - 32 lakhs+ no data available for 2nd week(which means nuthing substantial)

(P.S: this is a trend that mani is doing better in north and not any source of regional divide) :roll:

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Originally Posted by MADDY

http://www.indiafm.com/movies/boxoffice/12838/index.html

Guru is a hit..... 8-) .......considering only 15 crores was the expenditure.......

i stick to my arguement that still Mumbai is Mani's stronghold and not chennai..... 8-) ........this time with link...

Mumbai - 4.4 crores + 2.4 crores
Chennai - 32 lakhs+ no data available for 2nd week(which means nuthing substantial)

(P.S: this is a trend that mani is doing better in north and not any source of regional divide) :roll:

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enna nakkala.hindhila padam eduthutu tamil naatu collectionoda compare pannnaa epdi?

compare regarding opening man

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Originally Posted by thimuru

compare regarding opening man

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u mean to compare opening of :

tamil guru and Hindi guru in chennai?? or
Hindi guru in mumbai with tamil guru in chennai?? or
Hindi guru in mumbai with Hindi guru in chennai??

:? ...........kova padama badhil sollunga... :D

But I feel Guru is an average movie....going to watch Guru today evening....

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Originally Posted by leosimha

But I feel Guru is an average movie....going to watch Guru today evening....

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Prejudging will spoil ur opinion...... :D .......anyways just see and write ur view here......

i wanted a commercially successful movie for mani....he has got it atlast..... 8-)

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Originally Posted by MADDY

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Originally Posted by leosimha

But I feel Guru is an average movie....going to watch Guru today evening....

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Prejudging will spoil ur opinion...... :D .......anyways just see and write ur view here......

i wanted a commercially successful movie for mani....he has got it atlast..... 8-)

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will see and surely post my views.....yes if it is a commercial movie...then mani shouldn't have gone for the dubbed version in tamil...he should have gone for remaking it in tamil with tamil style...anyways...all for good...