Mani Ratnam Next Project

Ace director Mani Ratnam will script the biggest ever deal in the history of South Indian Cinema, for a three version film in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi.

According to source Mani Ratnam's production company Madras Talkies is in the final round of negotiation for huge Rs.120 Crore deal with the Anil Ambani run Reliance Entertainment Big Picture, for negative rights of all the three versions. According to close sources from the industry, if this deal happens, it will be the biggest ever for a South Indian Film.

Mani Sir as he is known in Kollywood, has been working on this script ever since the release of his super hit Guru in Jaunary, 2007.

Reportedly the Hindi version will have Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai in the lead and Govinda in a negative role. The Telugu and Tamil versions will have Vikram in the male lead, while Aishwarya will be the common heroine in all three languages.

He is teaming up with the photographer and friend-partner of his earlier ventures (Aalayam), PC Sreeram and his own discovery AR Rahman.

Mani Ratnam Next Project

Many speculations have been doing its round regarding the next project of India’s numero uno director Mani Ratnam. After his last film Guru in 2007, Mani will now be doing a bilingual in Tamil and Hindi where Vikram and Abhishek Bachchan will be doing lead roles in their respective languages. Aishwarya Rai will be their co-star. For this untitled

venture, Mani’s favorite cinematographer P C Sreeram will be wielding the camera. Sreeram who had worked with the ace director in many films like Nayagan, Thiruda Thiruda will be teaming up with him after their last venture Alaipayuthey in the year 2000. P C Sreeram had given new dimension to Mani Ratnam’s screen play and his choice of camera angles to convey the mood of the scene was a trendsetter for many films. It has been reported that Mani has given the first part of the script to the cinematographer. Official announcement regarding other details about the film is expected soon.