While the film is also about the father and daughter, Velu’s love story is inspiring.Ī younger Velu visits a brothel where he finds a school-going girl waiting in the room. This cult film stars Kamal Haasan in the lead role and is the story of Velu Naicker, an underworld don in Mumbai. Ratnam has shown how she matures and starts to love another man. Chandrakumar (Mohan) ends up being ignored by his wife after marriage and she even goes as far as to ask for a divorce as a birthday gift. Her family has no knowledge of this and finds her a groom who says yes to the wedding even after she requests him to reject her. Manohar, who is a part of a revolutionary group, gets falsely accused of a crime and is shot in front of Divya, who is, in fact, waiting to get married to him at the registrar’s office. They start on a false note, but once the misunderstanding is dealt with, they fall in love. Going against the norm of older man-younger woman, this film, though Mani Ratnam’s first and made over three decades back, is a fine work of art that breaks traditions and stays relevant even now.ĭivya (Revathi) meets Manohar when she is a student. Lakshmi and Anil Kapoor in this Kannada film will make you realise that love is beyond age. In Alaipayuthey, it was simply ‘Ay Pondatti’ (hey wifey). Notably, Mani Ratnam writes the best endearments for a woman. It was later remade in Hindi as Saathiya.
Set in the new millennium in Chennai, youngsters quickly connected with the film. Alaipayuthey is the story of Karthik and Shakti, played by Madhavan and Shalini, showing some difficult aspects of love marriage, and still melt your heart. While one is mostly used to hearing and watching men and women falling head over heels in love, fighting their families to find their happily-ever-after ending, it is very rare that a film shows what happened after they rode into the sunset. That said, here is a look at 16 different kinds of love stories that he has narrated.Īlaipayuthey – Secret love marriage and entailing pitfalls Through Karthik-Shakti in Alaipayuthey, Manohar-Divya-Chandrakumar in Mouna Raagam, Roja-Rishi in Roja and others, Mani Ratnam has aesthetically brought out the beauty, tension and maturity of relationships between different kinds of people. If you have watched closely, a key element in all his 26 films has been love - the romantic relationship between the main characters. Since his debut with Kannada film, Pallavi Anu Pallavi, starring Anil Kapoor and Lakshmi, to his most recent Kaatru Veliyidai, in Tamil, featuring Karthi and Aditi Rao Hydari, the director has enriched our lives with a variety no one else has. Ace filmmaker Mani Ratnam turned 62 on Saturday.
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