Ace director Mani Ratnam’s next with Karthi has been bought by big production houses even before the start of the shooting. The theatrical rights are now owned by Sri Thenandal Films in Tamil Nadu and by Bandla Ganesh Babu in Andhra Pradesh/Telangana. This romantic flick will however be produced by the director’s banner Madras Talkies.

As reported earlier, Sai Pallavi has been replaced by Aditi Rao Hydari as the female lead. Hope the pair’s chemistry work out good on screen. Karthi has completed the shooting for Kashmora and he is presently taking flying lessons as he will be seen playing a pilot in the film. The crew has A.R.Rahman to compose his magical tunes and Ravivarman will handle the camera.

This untitled flick will be a multilingual made in Tamil, Telugu & Malayalam and the filming is likely to commence by September. The team was scouting locations like Srirangam in Trichy to kickstart the venture. They are also preferring for hilly locations to bring a good ambience and have finalised few places at Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Ooty and Coonoor. 


Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam Iyer commonly known as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema, based out of Chennai. Starting his career as a management consultant, he made an entry into films through the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi in 1983. Despite a commercial failure, the film earned critical acclaim and fetched an award for the screenplay at the Karnataka State Film Awards. Ratnam's following efforts were the Malayalam film Unaru (1984), and the Tamil films: Pagal Nilavu and Idhaya Kovil, both in 1985. He came into prominence after Mouna Ragam (1986) which established himself as a leading director in Tamil cinema. He followed that with the Godfatheresque Nayagan (1987), which was among the three Indian films to be named by Time magazine's list of All-Time 100 Greatest Movies in 2005. His Telugu film Geethanjali won multiple Nandi Awards apart from the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. His next release Anjali (1990) was India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Ratnam is well known for his "Terrorism trilogy" consisting of Roja (1992), Bombay (1995) and Dil Se.. (1998).

Mani Ratnam

Mani Ratnam

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