Topic started by Sanjev (@ 202.67.115.45) on Mon May 13 10:50:47 .
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I would ask Mani Ratnam to simply retire. That guy just can't think of a another story line. He just has two or three stories where he mixes it up to his liking.

Example - There is three stories

Story 1, Story 2 and Story 3

What he has done so far is...use story 1 to make movie 1 and story 2 to make movie 2 and story 3 to make movie 3.

And then the movies after that are just a combination of Story 1 and 2 or 2and 3 or 1 and 3 or even 1,2 and 3. I don't think he has the guts to try something difference.

He does that because his story 1, 2 and 3 were good stories. He knows that if he mixes it up a movie can't fail.

I'll prove it to you in point form.

1) Terrorist or lets called it armed Milatants
(Roja, Uyire, Kanathil Muthamital)

2) Man and a women falls in love and then they
run away and get married:
(Bombay, Alaipayuthey)

3) Relegious fighting
(Bombay, (Kanathil can also be added here even though it is not a religous fight it is a civil war))

Bombay is 2+3

As you can see Alaipayuthey is half of Bombay (It is simply Bombay minus Point 3 = Alaipayuthey)

Uyire and Roja is the basically the same except in one hero and heroine get back together in the other they die. Sort of one and two together. (Lovers don't run away and marry though)

Kanathil Muthamital, 1 + a love of a child for it's mother.

In Bombay and Uyire The hero is a reporter, in Kanthil he is a writer. (Almost the same)

There are more.

Yes folks, I can sit here and prove it to you in more angels but I think enough is said.

Please let me know what you thought of this.

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• From: maniratnam fan (@ hamster.dur.ac.uk) on: Fri May 14 07:32:57 EDT 2004
  
  Gosh, you can't remember Thalapathy? He took an aspect of the Mahabharata and gave it contemporry touch - Karnan, Duryodhanan, Arjuna, Kunti.
  
  Play and Kajan, brilliant posts. I am so glad that I am not the only one who hated Kathallukku Mariyathai. God, Vijay cannot act to save his life and I wanted to shake Shalini so hard... A love story between two people from different religions (oh my God - how wonderful was the way Maniratnam treated the same topic!!) was not new - Alaigal Oyavathiley anyone? Heroine does not like hero - hero tries so hard to get her attention, she falls in love with him at last - Run, Prashant movies anyone? - gets beaten up by her relatives -Kadhalan anyone? and then gets married - any Tamil love film, anyone?
  
  Sanjev, you are right when you said "Hey..just remember. we are the important people here. They make movies for us, if we like it then they get lots of money for it. When we don't they loose money. (Ofcourse they are making the movies for us, you goose). "
  
  So don't go and watch MR films because YOU just know that you'll be disappointed. Lesser mortals like us can't wait for AE.
  
  
  
• From: Thamizhan (@ 61.2.224.125) on: Sat May 15 02:25:23 EDT 2004
  
  Good posts maniratnam fan.
  
  
• From: Thamizhan (@ 61.2.224.125) on: Sat May 15 02:28:34 EDT 2004
  
  Hey,that article in Cinesouth is a hogwash.I don't know why ppl want to make such idiotic comments.
  Come May 21st,it will answer....
  
  
• From: suresh (@ 61.95.227.155) on: Sat May 15 04:11:39 EDT 2004
  
  :-)
  
  manirathnam does not talk different things. but he talks things differently. it is his presentation, that is great.
  
  enjoy the visual beauty in his movie.
  
  :-)
  
  
• From: maniratnam fan (@ hamster.dur.ac.uk) on: Sat May 15 07:58:32 EDT 2004
  
  Thanks Thamizhan.
  
  We have a world-class director in our midst and trust our own people knocking him.
  
  
• From: Kajan (@ cpe0010a7270078-cm000a73a172c8.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sun May 16 10:48:36 EDT 2004
  
  Still this topic on live ? :-))
  
  Here we don't want to argue this topic, as Mani has been prooving for the past decades.
  
  
  World knows Mani is the one best director from not only TamilNadu but also from India
  
  

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