Sunday, October 26, 2008

My Guru


A 4 lettered man having a 3 lettered honour driving a 5 lettered nation ... A try to depict the man in his own math style of Direction.

The man is the legend of all times 'MANI RATHNAM' - (Mani -4 MBA - 3) , what a passion for professionalism this man has, an ace creator( Writer,Director,Producer) for more than 3 decades .
A protagonist by profession An Economist by qualification a writer by passion, more than all a Perfectionist and a progressive thinker. Why did i choose to blog on him??? I really wonder but i do as i was more influenced by the kind of impact he has made on the society on the whole.

I remember the first ever movie i watched and is coincidentally is of Mani's 'Roja' in 1992 if i am right.
A brigade of soldiers hunt out for the Terrors out in the Himalayan range, that opening scene is still vibrant and visible in my mind.

All parts of film making right from the story narration,Screenplay,Location,Direction,Music selection every department stands outstanding in all of his movies.

I am not a movie critic to overlook all these things but the core subjects he dwells with right out from Jihad,Love,Economics,Entrepreneurship,Friendship,.... the list of his movies speaks more of it. I really admire the nano perfection he portrays in all his creation.
I wonder the time when his movies speak of Cryptography(Roja),Encounters(Talabathi) which were very peculiar terms during those time.He has been progressive from that point. A really prolific precise creator he is, just imagine the one line story of the friendship b/w Karna and Duryoudhan is massive hit with his Midas touch in Talabhati, the character Surya still shines.

How could the story of D.Ambani could have been chronicled better than it was done in Guru where in a scene Abi replies to purely financial question(How did u convert non convertible debentures to stocks??) for which he replies that 'I am poor Business man and also he explains profit by saving 1 percent of his time in the allotted 2 minutes and says that's business.

Its just like reading a corporate houses quarterly report a precise vivid and vital description- just awesome. The most important of him: A normal person from a middle class Brahman family after completing his Masters in Business Administration from Jamanalal Bajaj during the late 80's moving into film making which is really a new domain of exposure to him!!!
How many of us would dare to do that if u have a MBA from a top b school. That's where the master strikes... Passion then Pocket brilliance than Big bucks... That's where Mani takes the pole position.

A person who applies what he learns will succeed forever and that's why Mani still wins and will win, we could visualise Economics,Finance,Statistics in some ways and means in his movies.
Look over the critical stories he has been doing Bombay,Roja,Alaipayuthey,Kannathil Muthamital.

A really talented tamilian making the India proud a prolific writer an ace director and an curious creator more than that a catalyst for a huge youngsters a professional in all paradigms makes him the guru of all times.