Mani Ratnam (born Gopalaratnam Subramaniam on 2 June 1956 in Madurai) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who works mainly in Tamil cinema, with a few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. Born into a family of film distributors and producers, he trained in management and worked as a consultant before entering films with the 1983 Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi. His breakthrough was Mouna Ragam in 1986, which won him his first Filmfare Best Director Award, and he followed it with Nayakan and Anjali, both submitted as India's official entry for the Academy Awards. Later work includes Roja, Bombay, Dil Se, Alai Payuthey, O Kadhal Kanmani and the two-part historical epic Ponniyin Selvan. He has won seven National Film Awards and was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2002. His company Madras Talkies is based in Chennai.
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He has won seven National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, seven Filmfare Awards South
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is a 1988 Indian Tamil-language masala film that was written and directed by Mani Ratnam
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