“When you break new grounds and try to do something different, it's always a high. I remember the first time we did a whole song in slow motion with lipsync for 'Geetanjali.' It was not prevalent at that time. We just had a method and we tried to do that. We weren't sure whether it was going to work, but that is the kind of risk you take.”

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.