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Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), commonly known by his screen name, 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. Mani's following efforts were the Malayalam film ''Unaru'' (1984), and the Tamil films: ''Pagal Nilavu'' and ''Idhaya Kovil'', both in 1985. He rose into prominence after ''Mouna Ragam'' (1986) which established him as a leading filmmaker in Tamil cinema. He followed that with the Godfatheresque ''Nayagan'' (1987), which was among the three great Indian films to be listed 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. ''Anjali'' (1990), his next release was India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Mani is well known for his "Terrorism trilogy" consisting of ''Roja'' (1992), ''Bombay'' (1995) and ''Dil Se..'' (1998). Mani is widely credited with having revolutionized the Tamil film industry. He is married to Tamil actress Suhasini and has a son with her. In 2002, he was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award given by the Government of India. Mani has won several film awards, including six National Film Awards and ten Filmfare Awards. In addition to these, he is a recipient of a number of awards at various international film festivals. ==Early life and background== Mani Ratnam was born in 1956 into a family that was closely associated with film production. His father S. Gopala Ratnam was a film distributor who worked for Venus Pictures,〔 and his uncle "Venus" Krishnamurthy was a film producer. Mani grew up in Madras (now Chennai), along with his brothers and cousins in a joint-family. Despite being a film family, the children were not allowed to watch films as the elders considered it a taboo". He started watching films more actively when he was studying in the Besant Theosophical School, Adyar, Madras. During this time, he started admiring actors like Sivaji Ganesan and Nagesh, and watched all their films. At the age of 15, he got to know about the director K. Balachander and became a fan of his. Upon completing his schooling, he graduated with a degree in commerce from the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, affiliated with Madras University, and then went to Bombay to pursue his MBA in finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. After finishing his post-graduation in 1977, he was employed in a firm as a management consultant where he continued to work for sometime.〔 Mani had two brothers—G. Venkateswaran and G. Srinivasan—both of them film producers, and a sister. Venkateswaran, a film producer who made many of Mani's films, ''Mouna Ragam'', ''Nayagan'', ''Agni Natchathiram'', ''Thalapathi'' and ''Anjali'',〔 committed suicide in 2003, reportedly because of financial problems. His younger brother, G. Srinivasan died in an accident while trekking in Manali in 2007. In 1988, Mani married Suhasini, who was a leading actress in South Indian cinema then. The couple have a son Nandhan Maniratnam (b. 1992). Mani resides in Alwarpet, Chennai, where he runs Madras Talkies, his production company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mani Ratnam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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