Celebrated Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam will be honoured at the 67th Venice International Film Festival
In recent years, the award has honoured other major world filmmakers like Takeshi Kitano, Abbas Kiarostami, Agnès Varda, and Sylvester Stallone. The Venice Film Festival Director Marco Mueller says, “Mani Ratnam used to make movies only in his native tongue, Tamil, but has been one of a handful of filmmakers to successfully handle the transition to the all-India market. One of the great innovators in contemporary Indian cinema, he helped introduce the auteur concept to contemporary Bollywood. His movies display precision and poise, and have always been removed from the bombast and bluster of massproduced regional cinema. The lavish musical numbers in his films, some of the best-tailored in Mumbai and Madras in recent years, have influenced the style of many others (as well as the design of commercials and music videos). Ratnam’s most celebrated films have become part of the cinematic imagination of the sub-continent.”
On the occasion of the award ceremony, the Mostra will present the festival premiere of Mani Ratnam’s forthcoming film Ravaan will take place. It will be attended by the director and Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Vikram and AR Rahman
“Ravaan will enchant audiences with its stirring drama and entrancing musical sequences. We are proud to be hosting the festival premiere of this wonderful film, which will be presented at the 2010 Mostra in both the Hindi and the Tamil version,” says Mueller.
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