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TopicMani Ratnam

Topic: Mani Ratnam

How Delhi HC defined ‘originality’, holding AR Rahman & ‘PS-2’ makers guilty of copyright infringement

The court found a song in Mani Ratnam’s film identical to a classical composition by late musician duo Junior Dagar Brothers, directing the composer & Madras Talkies to pay up over Rs 2 cr.

Thug Life is Kamal Haasan’s peace offering to fans who waited for Mani Ratnam collab

‘We were in search of better scripts, that’s why it took this long for us to collaborate,' Haasan said. He has co-written Thug Life with Ratnam.

Is Thug Life a sequel to Nayakan? Fans think so after Kamal Haasan-Mani Ratnam film teaser

The teaser for Thug Life—launched in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi—quickly went viral. The Tamil version alone garnered over three million views in just five hours.

Dagar, Rahman & music in the courtroom—Day 1 of Dhrupad maestro’s fight against film giants

Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar claims that AR Rahman has ‘copied’ his family’s Dhrupad composition, Shiva Stuti, for the song Veera Raja Veera in the Tamil blockbuster Ponniyin Selvan-2.

Mani Ratnam’s PS: II is a gripping game of thrones. But viewers must brave through its slow pace

All unanswered questions and loose ends come full circle as Ratnam brings his star-studded cast back on the silver screen.

Ponniyin Selvan-I: There is no guidebook to make a Chola period movie, researchers say

Mani Ratnam’s PS-1 has motivated senior citizens who had grown up listening to their parents read the novel trek over to cinema theatres after years.

Ponniyin Selvan:1 marks Aishwarya Rai’s return in Mani Ratnam’s Tamil epic adaptation

PS: 1 can be a tad overwhelming for someone not well versed with the universe of Ponniyin Selvan. But it still guarantees a grand theatrical experience.

Prakash Raj on playing Karunanidhi in Iruvar: He told me I came close but not enough

We met regularly, and he adored me. I fought with him too, but he always took my criticism in his stride and was open to debate on any subject. 

On Camera

No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

The methods of the welfarist reduce the productivity of human effort and thus affect the welfare of the invalids as well as of the able-bodied. This is a greater injustice, BS Sanyal wrote in 1957.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.