“I'm not saying that every song has to be an all-time hit or the greatest ever music. That's not what you should set out to do. But you have to find out what will work best for a particular story or theme or backdrop, and discuss how not to make it a cliche or fall into such traps.”

Indian film director, producer and screenwriter

Mani Ratnam, born Gopalaratnam Subramaniam, is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in Tamil cinema, with films also made in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. He belongs to the modern era of Indian cinema and has 99 quotes on the site. He is widely recognized for shaping commercially successful and influential films across several Indian languages. His career is closely associated with Tamil cinema, though his work extends beyond it. The available facts do not specify particular themes in his words, only his standing as a major figure in Indian filmmaking.