Mani Ratnam: I would want to change something in all my films if given a chance today
Hindustan TimesMani Ratnam’s filmography boasts of classics such as Dil Se…, Roja and Bombay, all critically acclaimed and rooted in real life. While the world accords cult status to his films, the filmmaker himself feels that he “would want to change” something in “all my films”, if given a chance today. Ask Ratnam would he take the chance and revisit his own body of work, and he says he doesn’t know whether he can make a “blanket statement or not”. If there’s nothing wrong in what you’re saying, you go ahead and make it with conviction, and hope that’ll come through.” On whether he feels that as a filmmaker he is at ease and has the liberty to explore any subject he wants today, Ratnam says it was the same even before, when he started off making films. Constraints are there, you try to maximise within them and see whether you manage to take one step forward, and keep trying, not give up so easily,” says Ratnam, 65, who’s currently busy with his next, the Tamil film Ponniyin Selvan starring Vikram and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
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